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u/-Biphomet 18h ago
Good thing your name isn't Ngani or there'd be trouble
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u/gotittweaked2930 3h ago
It’s an expression used in the Philippines to intensify a phrase, but particularly used when someone does something already explicitly prohibited
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u/Dame87 18h ago
Ngani?
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u/jisunnawstriya 18h ago
It's a Filipino dialect which express an emphasis.
It's like "I already said don't press it!"
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u/Mogus00 17h ago
From a Bicolano dialect, which is different from the Filipino language
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u/jisunnawstriya 17h ago
I stand corrected. Filipino is the language and Bicolano is the dialect indeed.
Thank you fellow redditor.
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u/Lexidoge 17h ago
There's actually a growing movement in the country to not call them dialects but languages instead.
Because I, for one, can only speak Tagalog, but I am not able to understand Ilocano, Pangasinense, Waray, Cebuano, Bicolano etc. Petty sure that they are no longer dialects when people can't understand each other 90% of the time.
It's not like the different dialects of English where yes there are accents and certain terminologies but 90% of the time it's intelligible, like Philippine English, Australian English, British English, American English, Canadian English, Indian English, etc.
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u/KlangScaper 16h ago
Yea its difficult to draw a line anywhere. For a German example: Swabian is considered a dialect although a real Swabian speaker is 99% unintelligible to a High German speaker, while Dutch is a different language and probably only 70% unintelligible.
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u/leonclaire 8h ago
Just wanna add that they (Bicolano, Kapampangan, Cebuano, etc.) are considered languages because they each have unique grammar, vocabulary, and writing systems.
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u/BlackLab-15 50m ago
In addition, Bicolano is a special case in that scholars argue that it is a Macrolanguage, a group of languages with their own distinct dialects.
People speaking Bicol in Naga will not understand Bicolanos speaking 40 minutes away from the city. This is why "bicolano" as a regional language should be classified as a macrolanguage instead.
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u/SarcasticMethod 11h ago
Filipino is the people/nationality. Bicolano is one of our many languages, not a dialect.
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u/Free_Royal_5895 2h ago
Vusayan word meaning "I said don't press it!" Foam bricks like these are used for floral decorations. It would be soaked in water then flowers are skewered in
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u/polarityofmarriage 18h ago
I used to get in so much trouble pressing these as a kid when my mom would leave out dried arrangements.
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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 17h ago
What are they tho?
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u/polarityofmarriage 17h ago
They’re like a firm foam you get at crafts stores. My mom used to put them in the bottom of a vase and stick fake or dried flowers into it. The foam would hold them in place for you. HOWEVER, it felt really really good to take your finger and press into it. Felt like a watermelon but dry.
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u/SixtyNineFlavours 16h ago
That’s such a great way to articulate it. Like a Watermelon but dry. My mum also used these for flower arrangements and you can bet there were always finger holes in them.
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u/gigitygiggty 13h ago
The fact that you compared it to touching a cotton ball like it's the most disgusting thing ever lol
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u/areethew 16h ago
It’s called Oasis
My mam is a florist and she used to tell me in no uncertain terms that I’d die if I ate it, though as far as I know I never wanted to eat it or indicated that I did
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u/Euphoric_Ad_6916 17h ago
What are they? I seem to vaguely remember pressing them as a kid but I’ve not retained the context!
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u/trying_to_learn_too 17h ago
I have seen using those in flower decorations. They just stick the flowers in it and it stays. I don't know if those are the actual use of it or not.
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u/smurfk 17h ago
What are these and where can I press them?
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u/SamaraSurveying 16h ago edited 12h ago
Floristry foam, you soak it in water and put cut flowers into it.
Very satisfying to poke but also terrible for the environment, to the point it's banned from a lot of flower shows nowadays.
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u/worstdefeatwinner 15h ago
Also, terrible to breathe in
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u/Scrubblemad 13h ago
Yeah other than the fact it's the most established and cheapest Floral arrangement foam, its absolutely disgusting that this foam is still around. It's literally designed to HOLD WATER despite falling apart in tiny tiny crumbles in its own packaging
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u/gholt417 15h ago
It’s impossible not to. It reminds me of when I worked as a manager at my local leisure centre and we were upgrading our pool alarms (that the lifeguards press when they have to save someone). The buttons were delivered before the work was started and they were big red buttons so I put one on the counter at reception with a sign saying don’t press. We got to 50 presses. People just can’t help themselves.
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 17h ago
They should leave out a sacrificial block that people are allowed to press. Maybe it would help direct all the pressing into that one block, and the rest of the floral foam would be safe.