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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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"One wonders about a God whose sensibilities are offended by naughty words but remains unmoved by the slaughter of thousands of ordinary Phillippinos. "

I might well have phrased it that way myself - for me, it would just be a very ironic way of saying 'One wonders about anybody who has a conception of God in which God's sensibilities are offended by naughty words but remains unmoved by the slaughter of thousands of ordinary Phillippinos".

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

All right, all right ... I was only quoting her. I looked it up after you picked me up on it. Yes, 'Filipinos' don't like to be referred to as 'Phillippinos'. Amongst themselves, in fact, they'll often use the word 'Pilipinos'.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

On the plus side, you may congratulate yourself on being more PC than Tweakabelle and I *put together*. What about that?!

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

All right, all right ... I was only quoting her. I looked it up after you picked me up on it. Yes, 'Filipinos' don't like to be referred to as 'Phillippinos'. Amongst themselves, in fact, they'll often use the word 'Pilipinos'.



That could be true, but in the dictionary I consulted "Pilipino" is the language spoken in the Phillippines, not the people.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pilipino

ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

On the plus side, you may congratulate yourself on being more PC than Tweakabelle and I *put together*. What about that?!




Me? PC? Seriously? You're off your meds!

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Well there is this.

So what is the difference between Filipino and Tagalog? Think of Filipino as Tagalog Plus. Filipino is inclusive of the contributions of languages other than Tagalog. For instance, it is quite all right to say diksyonaryo (from the Spanish diccionario) in Filipino, whereas a Tagalog purist (or someone stuck in the “Pilipino” era) might insist on a native Tagalog word like talahuluganan. It is also more politically correct to refer to Filipino, not Tagalog, as the Philippine national language. For Filipinos from other parts of the country, Tagalog is not their first language; they learn to speak Filipino because it is constitutionally the national language and taught in schools.

http://tagaloglang.com/filipino-tagalog-pilipino/

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Interesting resource: University of Hawai'i, Center for Philippine Studies

Filipino is the Hispanized (or Anglicized) way of referring to both the people and the language in the Philippines. Note that it is also correct to say Filipino for a male and Filipina for a female. Never use or say Philippino, because that doesn't sound right.

On the other hand, Pilipino, is how the locals from the Philippines refer to themselves, or to their national language. When applied to the language, Pilipino is synonymous with Tagalog, the language widely spoken in Manila, Bulacan, Bataan, and Batangas. The "P" or "Ph" is used because most Filipino languages do not have the "F" sound (with the exception of some native people in the Cordillera and Mindanao, like the Ifugao and the Teduray).

http://hawaii.edu/cps/filipino.html

I did not attempt to re-create all the italics in the original.