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On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:58:44 -0800, B. Garcia <madyaas@hidden.email> wrote: > See, from what I hear with Filipinos I know, /V/ becomes /a/. There's > a rather silly joke involving the name of watermelon in Tagalog among > a few teenagers whose parents came from the Philippines: > > Pakwan - watermelon Another is the word "pakinggan" /pakiNgan/ which means something like "hear". But it sounds like "fucking gun" to many young Filipino-Americans: "Get me the pakinggan!" - "Get me the fucking gun!" -- And they don't give the answers at the end of the test So they can't simply stand there and hope for the best So wake me up at the border when we reach Mexico I'll tell you a secret I don't even know... King of the Jailhouse - Aimee Mann