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:
“Him, the vindictive rod of angry justice
Sent, quick and howling, to the centre headlong;
I, fed with judgements,in a fleshy tomb, am
Buried above ground.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here. He squats in me.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“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)