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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

One of my favorite Filipino jokes:

Why didn’t the priest go swimming in the ocean? Because it’s salt water.

“Salt water” in Tagalog can be translated as “tubig asin,” which sounds like the English “too big a sin.” Many Filipino jokes rely on Tagalog and English like that.

Here’s another (putting original Tagalog because it’s kind of relevant):

May joke ako tungkol sa airport kaso NAIA ako eh hehe.

English:

I have a joke about the airport, but I am NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) hehe.

NAIA sounds like “nahiya,” which means “shy,” so it would sort of translate to “… but I was shy.”

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