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President Duterte has asked for public understanding over his tendency to use profanity, saying he could not help it. In a televised address Wednesday, the President admitted he could not stop cursing in public especially whenever he gets angry. "Sa totoo lang however formal I am, pagka ako...

And what this says about our understanding of our colonial history Philippine history teaches us that we have been under one foreign power and the next for the majority of our societal consciousness as a budding nation. There were the Spaniards, the Americans, and then the Japanese—oh, and you...

How its and it’s, the singular they, subject-verb disagreements, inconsistent tenses, and other elements of bad English drive us crazy Mind your language. And I don’t mean it as an idiom, meaning to speak politely. But if you must pepper your language with invectives, the more you need to mind....

Can’t believe we’re still taking this lesson in 2020 I love sharing all kinds of dumb, Filipino humor memes on Facebook. If I find something off and below the belt, I report it—racist, homophobic, bigot memes that amplify nonexistent edge cred, and sentences with the wrong usage of “ ng ”...

Mara Wilson (Instagram) American actress Mara Wilson surprised her fans recently by tweeting in TagLish (Tagalog and English), asking for the meaning of Filipino word "naman." "Ano meaning ang 'naman'? Salamat," she wrote. Mara added in the thread that she does not think it means "yes." "Also I...