ENGLISH KIWI ENGLISH AUSTRALIA

hiking tramping chicken chooks

slippers jandals bathing suit togs

For example: Luzon Mindanao

Libog (lust) Libog (confused)

Libang (recreation) Libang (defecate)

Asawa (husband/wife) Asawa (wife)
Langgam (ant) Langgam (bird)

Davao Cagayan
Kapayason (easily cry) Kapayason
(boastful)
Individualist
More concerned with one’s goals, needs, and interests
than with those of the group and emphasize the
importance of the unique self, or the “I.”

Collectivists
More concerned with the group’s goals, needs and
interests than with those of the individual and empha
the importance of the group,
or the “we.”
 Culturally Appropriate Terms

Votation It is proper to use voting.

Masteral, masterate. It is better to use master’s degree or M.A.

Green joke (movie, story). Obscene or purely pornographic. American slang

calls pornographic films as blue movies.
Slang The linguistic way of labeling the unrefined language
of the unschooled or of certain ethnic or cultural
groups
Cheapie, quickie. Cheapie Cheapie is cheap woman, a prostitute. Quickie is
something done very quickly.
Celebrant It is one who officiates in a ceremony or ritual.

Celebrator One who celebrates an occasion.

Aircon referring to the Airconditioning system.

C.R. To mean for toilet, bathroom

Overpass Elevated footbridge

Rotonda Roundabout

Every now and then Often for a while

Take home Take-out

Tomboy Lesbian

I'm toothbrushing I am brushing my teeth

The other day The day before yesterday

go ahead (sige) Mouna ko I have to run along, I
(ninyo) should be running
along, let me run along
and it is time I ran
along.
kill the fire patya ng turned off or switched
kalayo off
Good noon Maayong Good afternoon
udto
• I ate my dinner at the canteen.
• I had my dinner at the canteen.
• I have eaten my lunch.
• I have had my lunch.
• I take my breakfast at six.
• I have taken my dinner.
• I took my supper late.
• Congratulations on your promotion.
• I sent her my condolences the day her mother
died.
• Extend my regards to your brother.
• She expressed his thanks by sending cards.
• Good manners have no substitute.
• Your good wishes are enough to make me try
more.
Peculiar Recommended
As what my As my mother
mother has has said, good
said, good work is its own
work is its reward.
own reward.
I did as she had
I did as what instructed.
she had
instructed.
 1. Literary 4. Slang

2. Technical 5. Provincial

3. Colloquial 6. Barbaric
Language is the collective A regional dialect
utterance of a particular refers to the
group of people occupying a language variety
particular geography and used in a
sharing the same social and geographical region.
cultural experiences.

A dialect is a localized version of a language.

 Social dialect
● Dialects are also distributed according to
social class, sex and age, hence, social
dialects, or sociolect, to refer to non-
regional differences.

Social dialect
● The three common languages in writing
register are: formal, informal and neutral.
More appropriate for professional writing
and letters to a boss or a stranger.

Conversational and appropriate

when writing to friends and people
one knows very well.

It is most appropriate for

technical writings.
 Thank
you!
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