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CoÑotations

This excerpt uses Tagalog words and phrases in English sentences to explore cultural identity and code switching. It references having suitcase fever, using terms like "pare" and accent to seem less pretentious, making a connection and finding a guide, and disguising one's thoughts to avoid being guessed. The passage plays with the meanings of words when used between cultures.

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CoÑotations

This excerpt uses Tagalog words and phrases in English sentences to explore cultural identity and code switching. It references having suitcase fever, using terms like "pare" and accent to seem less pretentious, making a connection and finding a guide, and disguising one's thoughts to avoid being guessed. The passage plays with the meanings of words when used between cultures.

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Esther Edaniol
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CoÑotations (An Excerpt)

Paolo Manalo
1. I‘m like tripping right now I have suitcase fever.
2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.
3. Except he‘s not who he says he is, pare. He‘s a sneeze with Chinese blood:
Ha Ching!
4. Naman, it‘s like our Tagalog accent, so they won‘t think we‘re all airs; so
much weight it means nothing naman.
5. Dude, man, pare, at the next stop we‘ll make buwelta. So they can see we
know how to look where we came from.
6. It‘s hirap kaya to find a connection. Who ba‘s puwede to be our guide?
7. Dude, man, can you make this areglo naman?
8. Make it pabalot kaya in the mall. So they can‘t guess what you‘re
thinking. That‘s what I call a package deal.

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