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No Word For Privacy In Filipino
There are hundreds of dialects and several major languages spoken in the Philippines, including Taglish, that mix of English and Tagalog so loved by the A crowd on local television. No matter whether they are speaking in Tagalog, VIsayan, Ilocano, Pampangan, Waray Waray, Bicolano or any other native tongue…. there is no word for privacy!
I used an online Tagalog-English Dictionary and got this result for ‘privacy’:
Search result for privacy:
No match found!
Checking the Visayan-English Dictionary produced an identical result:
“privacy”
was not found in the dictionary
So what does that tell us, men who are about to marry a Filipina? If there is no word for something then it really can’t be something that is understood in that culture, can it? And it isn’t!
Be warned, your darling Honeyko will see nothing wrong with her going through your diary, email, computer, photo albums, old letters in fact anything where she can possibly trap you with evidence of your infidelity.
She will expect it and in fairness she is often quite correct that there were other women before her. It matters not if you were divorced, widowed, split up or whatever, she will feel you still love whoever else has been in your life more than her, irregardless of who is actually sleeping next to you at the time and it isn’t the ex-wife or school days sweetheart.
We’ll speak more of this later, but for now, you have been warned!















