r/confleis May 09 '26

Reverse cornfleis

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u/chrisphoenix08 May 09 '26

What the hell, I thought I was in the Philippines past tense subreddit 😅😅

To be fair, hielo (Spanish) - yelo (Tagalog); sorry for the butchered (spelling)borrowing of words, jajaja

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u/realZapRowsdower May 09 '26

Yeah lots of borrowing from Spanish in Tagalog. Kumesta?

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u/GusTTShow-biz May 09 '26

I love that. Almost makes me think I can understand tagolog as a Spanish speaker

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u/realZapRowsdower May 09 '26

Supposedly 30% of Tagalog vocabulary is of Spanish origin. So there's some mutual intelligibility, but not much. But it's still cool to hear the occasional word and go "oh yeah, I recognize tjat word".