Angry Speech Register
The angry register is unique to Bicol languages as it cannot be found in other Austronesian Languages inside and outside the Philippines. It is generally used only among same-age speakers or by older speakers to younger listeners, as usage by younger speakers in addressing their elders would constitute great disrespect. On occasion, the angry register is used in sarcasm or humor, but the majority of its usage is in anger.
Rinconada Bikol has contributed much to this unique feature of spoken languages of Bicolanos.
Examples:
| Normal Register | Angry Register Sinabukid pronunciation |
Angry Register Sinaranəw pronunciation |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| eye | matā | malsək | malsok |
| clothing | badô | lamakdô | lamakdô |
| eat | kaən | ablô / gətək | ablô / gotok |
| mouth | ŋaŋā | ŋurapak | ŋurapak |
| sleep | turog | tusmag | tusmag |
| drink | inom | til-ab / lablab | til-ab / lablab |
| child | igin | wagə^ | wagû |
| chicken | manok | sultok | sultok |
| dog | ayam | damayə^ | damayô |
| throw | baribad | barambaŋ | barambaŋ |
| mountain | bukid | luskid | luskid |
| run | dalagan | kurībaw | kurībaw |
| water | tubig | kal-eg | kal-eg |
| rain | uran | dunag | dunag |
| rice | bəgas | lasgas | lasgas |
| hungry | aləp | gəsləp / gəlsək | guslop / gulsok |
| woman | babayī | babaknit / siknit | babaknit / siknit |
| cry | burâ | ŋakŋak | ŋakŋak |
| old | guraŋ | gusnab / gusgos | gusnab / gusgos |
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Famous quotes containing the words angry, speech and/or register:
“Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man
Is but a substance that must yield to you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)