Gay lingo meaning11/11/2023 ![]() ![]() This article describes word formation processes and a technique in understanding Waria Slang Tulungagung. Furthermore, the methodology of this paper in studying either the Filipino gay language or the Metro Manila UV Express codes can be used in studying the variant Filipino gay languages in other places of the Philippines. This paper is also significant in being the first academic journal article that deals with the UV Express codes of Metro Manila. This paper is significant in offering a comprehensive listing and descriptions of the processes involved in the creation of Filipino gay words. Through a reconstructive contextualization and reverse engineering of 100 randomly collected Filipino gay words and another 100 randomly collected UV Express codes, this paper compared and contrasted their themes and creations. A UV Express is an air-conditioned public utility vehicle that is classier than the more famous Philippine jeepneys. In Metro Manila, there are two sets of coded language that baffle and amuse their observant bystanders: The Filipino gay language and the idiom used by the Utility Vehicle (UV) Express drivers. ![]() Gay language is also an influence not only to the youth but also to adults. The language’s continuous update on words that also constantly reaches the masses that are exposed to the language. The freedom of the gay language allows it to be a good subject for a study on the grammaticall rules involved with this because the language is free from the dictates of the society. Because of the spread of Swardspeak, many Filipino try to engange them and makes use of it. It is also their way of speaking and their own mannerisms that make it different to those of the females. It consists of mainly Filipino language, but also uses elements of English, Spanish and other Asian or foreign words (especially Japanese), gays make uses of words that are derived from other words and try to make the words colorful and enticingly comical. Nowadays it is one of the most prominent kinds of language that most of the youth rather people engaged to. Here in the Philippines, they called the term, "Swardspeak" or "Gay Lingo". That language is what we called gay lingo but in 1970s, it is Swardspeak. Some of us have experienced being near to a group of gays who were talking in quite a different language and you were surprised that you could understand some of the words they were saying. Today’s modern generation, many youth are engaged in different languages. But because of the everyday and frequent use of the code in parlors, sidewalks, comedy bars and other places where gays frequently hang out. One of the ways the discriminated gays thought of was to come up with a code that only they will understand in order to hide from the prying eyes and ears of the society they move in. Gays have been a great subject to social discrimination, taunts, ridicules and mockery. Growing up into a society that socially accepts gays and other members of the LGBT, children grow accustomed to the gay language and mostly involve it in their daily lives.
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