Category Archives: Language

Profanity Ordinance: President Duterte Is Now Banned From Visiting Baguio City

F12C0A2C-0C16-4070-B24D-A2B48087D6D5BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Baguio Bureau) – Last week, we reported that President Rodrigo Duterte is closing down Baguio City for six months for rehabilitation, following the success  a similar order he issued for Boracay.

Well, now the Summer Capital of the Philippines is fighting back!

Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan has just signed an ordinance penalizing profanity in the city.

Authored by Councilor Lilia Fariñas, the “Anti-Profanity Ban” prohibits swearing, cussing, and other forms of profanity in selected institutions in the city.

The ordinance seeks to ban “all manner of cursing, cussing, expressing insults, whether directly or indirectly to anyone or anybody, or using profane and foul language, as a means of expression, or as a manifestation of anger, surprise, disgust or any other form of extreme emotion that yields to such expressions of profanity.”

The measure covers schools, computer shops, arcades, and other business establishments frequented by children, high school, and college students in the city.

We all know what this means.

It means that the cussing Duterte is banned from visiting Baguio.  So it looks like before he could close down the city, the city closed its doors on Duterte.

Adobo Chronicles’ Word Of The Year: TOKWA

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Photo credit: Patrick Martires

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – This year’s linguistic conference at the University of the Philippines in Diliman has chosen the word of the year: “tokhang.”

It is common knowledge that “tokhang” was coined by the Duterte administration in connection with the war on drugs. It beat finalists that included dengvaxia, quo warranto, dilawan, fake news and resibo.

As if by coincidence, members of The Adobo Chronicles’ editorial board just voted on their own word of the year: TOKWA.

In explaining their choice, board member Pol Pinoy said that “ tokwa partners very well with the popular Filipino dish, tokwa’t baboy, and that there are many pigs among our elected officials.”

’Nuff said.

 

A Message For Mocha Uson From The Deaf Community — In Sign Language

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau). Here’s a message on behalf of the deaf community in the Philippines, addressed to PCOO Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson — in sign language.

They’re asking Uson to resign now!

(video courtesy of the Philippine Federation of the Deaf)