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From: sebri@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Doris L. Britton)
Subject: Re: Another language xlation jokes
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Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:34 EST  

In article <1993Jan25.175318.9855@odin.corp.sgi.com>, labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson) writes...
>1) What is 7-Up in German??? ---- SPRITE
>2) What is Handsome in Japanese ---- KA MUKAKO
>3) What is Ugly in Japanese--------- KA MUKAMO
>4) What is balbon in france -------- Madame mosha
>5) Ano ang naka walkman sa japanese ---NAKASONE (Naka Sony, get it??)

Here's another one I heard from a very young and funny Filipino priest in 
Cleveland: (He told us a lot of jokes but I can't remember them.)

 6) What do you call a rich Japanese--- NAKAGUCI

> 
>I'm still thinking..............
> 
>Continue the jokes guys!!!!!!!!
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: cabanero@shearson.com (Vincent Cabanero)
Subject: New Green Card Law
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:12:13 GMT


The new law requires that green cards (I-551) issued
prior to a given date (I can't recall as of the moment)
be converted to the new design (pink background with blue
type laminated in security plastic).  The cutoff date
goes ten to fifteen years from the present, so not everyone
is affected.  Newly issued green cards have an expiration
period of 10 years.  The old green cards do not.

Check with your local INS branch for details.  They can
even give you an 800 number to call re: the latest postings
on immigration rules and regulations.

V  



Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Joey Cruz)
Subject: Re: Joke Time
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:23:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.181644.1624@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> sobejana@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Regina Sobejana) writes:
>Joey Cruz (jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
>> O eto maigsi lang ano sa ingles ang "pusod ng dagat?"
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Is that "belly of the sea?"  (hmmm...where's my humor hat...)
>Shouldn't that be... "puwet ng dagat" for "bottom of the sea?"
>
>d8^)
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>Pusod ng dagat= Belly of the Sea?    NOT....
>Bottom of the Sea= Puwet ng dagat?   MAYBE.....

Here's another one for you...
What is Silla/chair in Tagalog?
What is Bra in Tagalog?

SIRIT NA BA ?....


If Silla / Chair is SALONG PUWET in Tagalog then
BRA is (bahala ka nang sumagot)


bye and keepthe jokes coming,
jcc

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From: jfunson@Corp.Sun.COM (John Francis S. Unson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Mahal na mahal kita
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:58:30 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jf.unson@Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: vanda.corp.sun.com

|> >"Mahal" can mean dear or expensive in Tagalog.  Thus, when one says,
|> >"Mahal kita", it means "I love you" or literally, "you are dear to
|> >me".  On the other hand, "Mahal ka", would usually be understood
|> >to mean "you are expensive".  I think "Minamahal kita" or "iniibig kita"
|> >are better translations of "I love you":  "Minamahal" and "iniibig" are
|> >verbs which mean love, whereas "mahal" is an adjective.  (Warning: Pilipino
|> >was one of my worst subjects, next to English.)

I disagree - mahal ka can also mean "You are loved" as in 
"Mahal ka ng inay."   Mahal is a homonym, I believe.

|> >I seems that "mahal" originated from Malay language.  It's interesting that


I've always wondered if "mahal" could have also come from Hindi, except
changed during the course of time (e.g., Taj Majal in India).  Remember,
there was a strong Indain influence in the Philippines prior to the
arrival of the Spanish.  Remember, things change.  For example thank
you in Malay is spelled "selemat" whereas its "salamat" in english.
So, mahal may have come from India.

|> >I seems that "mahal" originated from Malay language.  It's interesting that
|> >"kita" seems to have very different meanings in Malay and in Tagalog.  In
|> >Tagalog, "kita" does not mean "our" or "we".  I'm having a hard time
|> >explaining
|> >kita, so I'll have to consult a book, but it has something to do with
|> >you-me.  Our is "amin" or "namin" and we is "kami".
|> >
|> 
|> In my understanding "kita" means "from me to you" or "I  to you."  Meaning
|> the verb is applying in the direction of 'sayer' to 'sayee'.  As the
|> previous poster said it's difficult to explain
|> 


If I remember my Tagalog classes correctly....

Tagalog has the distinction of having singular, "double" and plural pronouns
(I'm literally translating from tagalog - isahan, dalawahan,
maramihan).  The words "kita" and "kata" are the double type pronouns.

The distinction is that "kita" has a direction, i.e., from me to you,
whereas "kata" functions more like an inclusive "we."  Thus, one
would't be surprised to hear one person say to another person "Pumunta
nga kata sa sinehan."  For some reason, the use of "kata" in the
language has diminished through time.  You won't hear it except maybe
in the provinces like Batangas.


-J.F.



Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: garciaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Marie Tanya Palena Garcia-Ascue)
Subject: Re: more pinoy joke
Keywords: Bato bato sa langit tamaan huag magagalit......
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:11:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.232849.28842@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Joey Cruz) writes:
>Here's another joke coming from yours truly. This is really
>an Enlish joke translated to Tagalog.
>
>Sa isang marangyang tahanan ay maririnig ang boses nang batang
>batang biyuda na sa Donia Kikay, kausap ang kanyang katiwala (Butler)
>
>Makinig po tayo ....
>
>Do~na Kikay sa Katiwala (Butler): Puede ba Basyong pakihubad ang jacket ko..
>        Basyong: Nahubad na po senyora Kikay 
>      Do~na Kikay: Puede ba Basyong pakihubad ang blusa ko?
>        Basyong : Nahubad na po Senyoyra Kikay..
>       Do~na Kikay: Puede ba Basyong pakihubad ang palda ko?
>        Basyong : Nahubad na po Senyora...
>       Do~na Kikay: Pakitanggal lang ang BRA Basyong
>        Basyong :  Tanggal no po Senyora
>       Do~na Kikay: BASYONG hubarin ang PANTY ko P L E A S E ! !!
>        Basyong : Hubad na hubad na po senioraaaa...
>
>       Do~na Kikay : BASYONG TANDAAN MO ITO, SA SUSUNOD NA MAHULI
>                     KITANG GINGAMIT MO ANG DAMIT KO  AY SISANTE
>                     KA GAGO.......
>-==-=-=============================================================----
>






Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha kakatawa talaga --- where do people hear all these
jokes??!   Natatameme na lang ako after reading them --- as of
writing, i REALLY can't think of a single joke from back home --- keep
it up w/ the laughs though ...  8]


























































Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: sobejana@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Regina Sobejana)
Subject: Joke Time
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:36:34 GMT
Organization: Bill & Dave's Garage
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Keywords:  buti pa siya


I got this from my friend (who got it from a friend of a friend....),
and thought it's funny.  And I believe, someone requested this,
sorry I can't remember who.

Anyway, enjoy....


d8^)
-ginnie


	Thoughts on Valentine's Day

		Buti Pa Siya

Buti pa ang Kalendaryo, may date....
Buti pa ang Hersey's, may kisses
Buti pa ang Probability may chances...
	...yung ibang tao, Wala....

Buti pa ang Exam's, sinasagot...
Buti pa ang Film, nade-develop...
Buti pa ang Hininga, hinahabol...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Assignment, naiuuwi...
Buti pa ang Baso, nadadampian ng labi...
Buti pa ang Unan, katabi at kaakap sa gabi...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Telepono, hini-"hello"-wan...
Buti pa ang Typewriter, nata-type-pan...
Buti pa ang Salamin, minamasdan...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Panyo, iniiyakan...
Buti pa ang Sugat, iniingatan at inaalagan...
Buti pa ang Awit at Tugtog, magkasama...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Tindera, nagpapatawad....
Buti pa ang Kamalian, pinapansin...
Buti pa ang Problema, lagin iniisip...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.


Buti pa ang Bra, sinusuportahan ka...
Buti pa ang Panty, sa iyo nakadampi
Buti pa ang Kotex, sa iyo ay naiipon...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Susi, naipapasok...
Buti pa ang Bola, nilalaro...
Buti pa ang Itlog, binabati...
	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.

Buti pa ang Tela, inihimas...
Buti pa ang Yelo, pinatitigas...
Buti pa ang Sobre, dinidilaan...
	...bakit sa akin, Hindi.
---------------------------------------------------


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: hm514600@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Joke Time
Keywords: buti pa siya
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:51:50 GMT
Reply-To: hm514600@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
Organization: Engineering College, Colorado State University


> Buti pa ang Kalendaryo, may date....
> Buti pa ang Hersey's, may kisses
> Buti pa ang Probability may chances...
> 	...yung ibang tao, Wala....

> Buti pa ang Exam's, sinasagot...
> Buti pa ang Film, nade-develop...
> Buti pa ang Hininga, hinahabol...
>	...yung ibang tao, Hindi.


 You may add this...
  Buti pa ang pera laging may tao,
  Ang tao wala laging pera.
From: eus10@harimanok.amdahl.com (Jun Soriano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: New Green Card Law
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:11:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.151213.5350@shearson.com>, cabanero@shearson.com (Vincent Cabanero) writes:
|> 
|> The new law requires that green cards (I-551) issued
|> prior to a given date (I can't recall as of the moment)
|> be converted to the new design (pink background with blue
|> type laminated in security plastic).  

....so, what is it called now? .... pink card or blue card? .... 
wild guess: pink for female alien and blue for male alien maybe :-)
(biro lang, Vincent).

but seriously i used to have one then got rid off it after 6 years and months
later i found myself in the jury selection box in san jose. 

while we are still in the green thread i have NSG jokes (not-so-green) for you 
out there but it can only be told in tagalog though.
here it goes:

joke #1:     ano ang tawag sa BULAG sa japan.

sirit na:    eh..... di NOMATA


joke #2:     ano ang circumcision sa german.

sirit na:    slicen' oten


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From: jchavez@td2cad.intel.com (Joas Chavez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Bugtong-Bugtong kung ito'y masasagot
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:05:52 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

It's time for Riddle na may kasamang Biro...

Ano ang Kulangot sa LATIN = __________

Kailan Sinasara ang Bintana? _________

MAgbigay nang Pangalang lalaki na nagtatapos sa "A" at least 3 names _________

Paano natutulog ang KUBA?   ________________________

Paano bumibili nang sumbrero ang KUBA?  __________

What is the difference between OPINION at CONCLUSION (you have to have a
Bicolano or Pangasinan accent to answer this NO OFFENSE... I apologize
if I offend anyone out there)  _________

Mag bigay nang prutas na walang buto. ___________                 

Ano ang pangalan nang miss China Town, ang last name is "ANG"_______

=====================================================================

teka punta muna ako sa __yo at na maka jingle..  saka ka na sasagutin.

=====================================================================


IPAGBUNYI AT IPAGMALAKI ang KATUTUBONG KULTURA....    jojo
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: sobejana@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Regina Sobejana)
Subject: Re: Another language xlation jokes
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37:10 GMT
Organization: Bill & Dave's Garage
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Doris L. Britton (sebri@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov) wrote:
> In article <1993Jan25.175318.9855@odin.corp.sgi.com>, labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson) writes...
> >1) What is 7-Up in German??? ---- SPRITE
> >2) What is Handsome in Japanese ---- KA MUKAKO
> >3) What is Ugly in Japanese--------- KA MUKAMO
> >4) What is balbon in france -------- Madame mosha
> >5) Ano ang naka walkman sa japanese ---NAKASONE (Naka Sony, get it??)
> 
> Here's another one I heard from a very young and funny Filipino priest in 
> Cleveland: (He told us a lot of jokes but I can't remember them.)
 
> 6) What do you call a rich Japanese--- NAKAGUCI
> 
> > 
> >I'm still thinking..............
> > 

Here's another one:

  7) What is Hanes/Jockey (or brief) in Japanese  -----  SaRongDick0


:-)
-ginnie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: pacs@leland.Stanford.EDU (Francisco Sandejas)
Subject: SFO: organizational mtg for database & speaker forum
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:08:19 GMT

Hello Folks!

Some of us at SFO want to join up with the some of the members
of the STAC information technologies group and with the people
from CAL Berkeley, to come up with a human resource database. 
We will be building on the idea of Vic Ilag and others 
on the net. Also, we will be organizing talks 
in the Bay Area to serve as a forum for networking and for 
coming up with new venture ideas.

SFO (Stanford Filipino Organization) is evolving into an 
entrepreneurial club which will not be limited to Stanford 
students nor to Filipinos. The sole requirement is that you be 
interested in helping  improve technology in the Philippines. 
The least we will ask of people is that they fill up our 
information sheet, to be used for our human resource database.  
This will be used to attract investors and to also help in 
placing your brilliant minds in ventures that will be most 
exciting, that is if you are interested.

SO FOR EVERYONE INTERESTED IN HELPING GETTING THIS DATABASE 
AND SPEAKERS' FORUM ORGANIZED, PLEASE COME TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL 
MEETING. WE WILL MEET 6 P.M. IN FRONT OF THE MAIN QUADRANGLE OF 
STANFORD AND GO OUT FOR A KKB* DINNER. PLEASE REPLY AND TELL ME 
IF YOU ARE COMING SO WE CAN RESERVE AT THAI CITY. (dinner cost 
will be about $9). 

Those of you who come can help in baptizing the  new group if 
you object to "SFO". We know CAL people will be with us, too. So,
people like Ceo, Aimee and Eric should show up
to prove that this is not an elitist Stanford thing.  We will
condescend to the masses... just kidding.
Seriously, we would like to form a group with representatives
from everywhere: STAC-IT, CAL, Pinoys in the Valley, etc.
That's the only way this will work.
From: pang@cse.ucsc.edu (Alex Pang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: stuff to see/do in the philippines
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:29:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu


stuff to do:
-------------

eat balut
eat lechon
drink tuba

take a ride on the Death Machine (DM) -- are they still around?
hang on the back of a packed jeepney
take a kalesa ride in ongpin

alex
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: cabanero@shearson.com (Vincent Cabanero)
Subject: Exchange rate
Reply-To: cabanero@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:43:40 GMT


There really are a lot of factors that dictate what the exchange rate
should be between two currencies.  It used to be that central banks of
foreign governments define/regulate what the inter-currency exchange
rate should be. But in this world of global markets, the trading floors
of the stock exchanges here in New York, Paris, London, Tokyo and elsewhere
around the globe DETERMINE what those rates are.

Events, too, influence the comparative value of one currency relative to
another.  Consider the 1990 crumbling of the Berlin.  With Bonn anxious
to make the reunification work, they sought foreign investments by raising
the interest rates.  High interest rates, of course, pay more for the same
amount of money invested for a certain duration of time.  What happpened?
Well, the German mark became stronger than the US dollar because a lot of
the money invested in US denominated securities went to Germany.

There is a lot more to this topic than can be briefly written about here.
Why not try reading the forum MISC.INVEST, if you really want to understand
the kinematics of exchange rates?

V



Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: pacs@leland.Stanford.EDU (Francisco Sandejas)
Subject: STACnet post forwarded from Sweden
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:59:15 GMT

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:41 -0100
From: Eng-Leong_Foo_MIRCEN-KI%MICFORUM@mica.mic.ki.se
To: pacs@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: STAC-WG
Status: R

Dear Paco,
I now have a mailing list for gathering a working group for
STACnet. Could you please post the following into your newgroup:

******
1993-01-28

Dear Fellow Filipinos and Colleagues,

You probably have heard of STAC or you are already a member of a
STAC in your city. It is the abbreviation for "Science &
Technology Advisory Council" and it composes of expatriate
Filipino scientists, professionals and their colleagues. Several
STACs have been established abroad. STAC's headoffice is at the
Dept of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines and Dr.
Federico M Macaranas coordinates the programme which has a
central focus to use expatriate resources in key development
programs of the country. STACs members thus monitor scientific
and technological developments abroad, facilitate technology
transfer and may  perform consultancies or provide assistance to
public and private sectors in the Philippines.

STACnet is proposed to serve as the electronic arm of the
STAC network. It will be a network of people who can
communicate by email and its primary goal would be to fortify
the existing organizational structure of STAC and its activities.

I am now gathering a working group to prepare the project
proposal for the establishment of STACnet.  This working group
will, among others :
 (a)  develop STACnet objectives
 (b)  propose a network structure
 (c)  outline the status of email facilities and services in the
      Philippines
 (d)  provide an initial list of cooperating partners and participants
 (e)  identify key partners
 (f)  make a proposal of selected activities, which may range from
      network support (installation of computer facilities for
      communication, access and use of existing facilities) to ideas on
      how to use STACnet to support existing development programs of the
      Philippines.

If you are a filipino, or a STAC member or an individual with
serious concerns on the development of the Philippines through
science and technology, please contact me. Kindly inform me of
your professional interests and how you may contribute to the
establishment of STACnet. Though the number of members in the
working group will be limited, I would like to keep you informed
of our progress and to anticipate your participation upon the
establishment of STACnet.

Your sinscerely
 Mr. Eng-Leong Foo (member of STAC-Sweden)
 Director, Unesco Microbial Resources Center
 Karolinska Institute, 10401 Stockholm, Sweden
 Phone: 46-8-7287145    Fax: 46-8-331547
 email: Eng-Leong_Foo_MIRCEN-KI%MICFORUM@MICA.MIC.KI.SE
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: arnie@imag.fr (arnulfo azcarraga)
Subject: poem for the "birhens"
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:41:56 GMT


The "dedication" to the "virgins",

> Buti pa ang workstation ko, may EX- 
>	ako wala ...

reminds me of 

" ... for it is better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all"  

(was it Elizabeth Browning in "How do I love thee, 
let me count the ways"? )

This was revised by a friend :

"... for it is better to have loved and lost
than never to have lost it at all" :-)

-Arnie-



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LIFIA, Institut-IMAG, 46 av Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble cedex, France
From: randrada@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Rey Andrada)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: SFO: organizational mtg for database & speaker forum
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:04:48 GMT
Reply-To: randrada@pyrtech.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Rey Andrada)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

>SO FOR EVERYONE INTERESTED IN HELPING GETTING THIS DATABASE
>AND SPEAKERS' FORUM ORGANIZED, PLEASE COME TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL
>MEETING. WE WILL MEET 6 P.M. IN FRONT OF THE MAIN QUADRANGLE OF
>STANFORD AND GO OUT FOR A KKB* DINNER. PLEASE REPLY AND TELL ME
>IF YOU ARE COMING SO WE CAN RESERVE AT THAI CITY. (dinner cost
>will be about $9).

  why at THAI CITY is this a Filipino owned place , or maybe you want
to help the Thai's ?




   Rey
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: temiraso@vela.acs.oakland.edu (thomas e mirasol)
Subject: Re: H-1 Visa Holders
Keywords: POEA
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:15:30 GMT

In article <185113@pyramid.pyramid.com> randrada@pyrtech.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Rey Andrada) writes:
>
>
>
>      what a pain .. why do you need to register with PO(something)
>another government red tape. the government is supposed to protect
>anyone with Philippine passport. poor Filipinos (including me). when
>I was in Saudi Arabia you can't get 80% of your salary but it has to
>go thru the Philippine bank and be widrawn in the PI in pesos. I was
>lucky the company I was with was small and somehow not sending 80% of
>my salary to the PI..Oh i just hope our government will change..

You're right, it is a pain.  However, what year were you in Saudi?  I
was there from 1985 thru 1986 and the Phil. gov't did stop that practice
of requiring 70% (I believe this is the right amount) of your pay held
thru a Phil bank.  By the way, did you also know that the Saudi gov't
repealed the collection of GOSI (this is the equivalent of social
security deductions and is only redeemable upon retirement)?  I think
this was in 1988 or 89.  In any case, all collections were to be
returned to the employees and even though you have left Saudi Arabia,
you can get your contributions by writing to your former employer and
asking for the appropriate form.  Once this form is forwarded to the
Saudi gov't, you will receive your check in a few months.
I got all of mine back.