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@[email protected] Yep. Pano is good and well maintained. It keeps on improving too, new features I never thought I'd use but ending up using it. 🙂

@n_[email protected] Thank you for sharing! 🙇🏽 Definitely something to be aware of, especially the third one. 😁

🤔 If a foreigner use any of those, is there a curious or negative reaction? I mean, regardless if the foreigner is a tourist or already living in Australia.

@[email protected] Good question! Yep, "bagyo" applies to any storm and typhoon. It's only in Philippine English that we have two words for it. 😅

I'm not sure when it happened. But IIRC, back in the 90s, "storm" and "typhoon" were the same. I guess it was part of PAGASA's (Philippine meteorology agency) to make it easier to distinguish what is weak vs powerful "storms"/"typhoons".

Oh, we still don't use "hurricane", it's still reserved for the Western hemisphere.

@[email protected] Ahh. It's not the same as the Twitter Migration 3.0 UK this year? IIRC, it was related to a politician saying something which prompted a lot of people to leave Twitter.

So, if you're a foreigner visiting the #Philippines for the first time and you hear "po" in pure English sentences, don't ask, "Who is po?" 😜

"Po" is a Tagalog-only word show respect. It's actually overused because we can shiw politeness in different levels, but "po" made it easier and faster to do so. And since it is not easy to show politeness in English the way we Asians do in our native languages, the Tagalog "po" got mixed in to Philippine English sentences.

So, now, one need not think how to change their English sentence to make it polite, just use "po".

Like in, "f*ck you po" or "I hope you die po, thief!". You can be polite while cursing someone in Philippine English. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

• Taglish is code-mixing.
• Singlish is, I can't even remember the proper terminology.
• Kinglish/Konglish is actually a subset of Korean. It's different from Singlish and Taglish.

So many foreigners, and it's understandable, mistake Philippine English as Taglish" Or, how it is supposedly similar to Singlish and/or Kinglish/Konglish.

It is not. Philippine English is pure English. It is a combination of Australian, British, and American English, with Philippine languages and dialects (200+) influences. It also focuses on pronouncing the letters clearly, as it is written, and as "neutral" as possible.

Example: We clearly pronounce "than" and "then". You won't hear us say "other then", you'll hear us pronounce it correctly as "other than".

We also follow what is commonly known as the "Oxford comma".

And when it comes to spelling variations, all are valid, you can freely mix them. Although there are cases wherein a specific use became common. Like, "center vs centre". We don't write, "Can you centre this?" We use "center" for that. But we write, "Can you go to that centre you went to and ask for this?" Which refers to an institution. But we generally pronounce both the same as "sen-ter" (some say "sen-tre" 🤪).

Confused already? That's only the tip of Philippine English. We form our sentences differently too. 🤣

There is also the politeness/respect and formality levels from various Philippine languages and dialects also influenced the way we choose which English words to use and how we construct our sentences. It's not much because English itself is limited and simple, but the influence is there.

Oh, and the overused "po" gets mixed in Philippine English as well. It's the only non-English word that gets mixed in a pure Philippine English sentence (well, sometimes "na" and "ka" too).

• "Good morning po."
• "How are you po?"
• "Yes, po. We're on the way na po." (overused)
• "F*ck you po!" 🤣🤣🤣 (Seriously)
• "How do you like your egg po?"

@[email protected] It's hard to know. Only way is to compare what each network had prior to the migration. In the case of the Fediverse, based on the public tracking sites. While for The ATmosphere, based on official announcements.

@[email protected] Haha, true that. Only the those two clones we're cool with it.

Hmm… that's scary too if they all see "the wife" and decide to have her. ^^;;

@[email protected] Wow. That's including the books they archived? Or, just the websites?

O_O I didn't hear about the user data issue.

Hmm… I wonder how long it has been going on. It took a couple of weeks before I got a reply from them that an admin unintentionally deleted my account, now that you mentioned it, my account probably got squeezed between spam accounts or something. (I was just advised to create a new account, and sadly only lists can be restored. T_T )

@[email protected] Yep, it's challenging and sad. Even Wikipedia use it as a resource and backup of sources.

And there are also those using it to archive copyright infringement, or as a record of a work's license at the time (specially since some loves to change the license when they originally released it in Creative Commons or the Public Domain).

It's crazy though that there was no service as close to the features archive.org has. The only one I'm aware of available publicly is archive.ph / archive.md but they don't offer the archiving of links found, and it's pretty much very static only (TiddlyWiki sites don't work correctly).

T_T

@[email protected] That's a very good question! Sadly, I haven't received the update on Android yet. T_T

Good thing you mentioned it, I'll pay attention to that once I get the latest beta update from our region.

@nanoUFO

> Sooner rather than later

Because there must be bugs. It's a feature. ^_~