Talk:sayang

Philippine English

@Mlgc1998 You sure it's used in PH English? I know it's kinda hard to split code-switching and real Philippine English, but I think there should still be a basis to it. For Malaysia and Singapore, it's common to use it in Singlish, so it really falls under the English label. But for PH English, I think maybe we need quotes? Mar vin kaiser (talk) 09:20, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser might be more of a Conyo English colloquial slang usage, under Philippine English. that book chapter mentions it as part of Philippine English, as part of the expression "very sayang". These types of expressions using this word in base English sentences are usually from the type of people who speak Conyo, lol like, "That's so sayang!" Similarly, terms like na in Philippine English are also used in Conyo English, but it's more widely used cuz of Tagalog particle speech mannerisms. These Conyo English are under Ph. English, while Taglish is under Tagalog, cuz of their base grammar and the majority of terms being used. The one that's code-switching is when separate phrases come from different languages interchangeably, where each phrase is using the grammar rules of each language consistently. The one where say Tagalog tries to make verb forms of English verbs is a code-mixing phenomenon of Taglish, while the one where Ph. English tries to use Tagalog verb forms as something to execute by "make" is code-mixing under Conyo English. Mlgc1998 (talk) 06:54, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998: I guess seeing "sayang" under Philippine English in that book is good enough, but yeah I think it'd be great to have a quote. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 09:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)