...The Effects of “Gay Lingo” on Memory Retrieval of Selected Adolescents Introduction: “Bekimon” is one of a manifestation of a culture, since “Bekimon” is a language used by locals. The younger generation adapts it thru their ate’s and kuya’s who speak “Bekimon” or say some “Bekimon” terms. The Gay Lingo is a language dedicated for the homosexual people to have their own language and to develop their culture to become one of the respected ones and it was not just made for fun. Gay Lingo is a spectrum of culture varying from different city, province, region or country thus, Gay Lingo made significant breakthrough to the LGBT community in the world, this is their form of conformity or acceptance to the society since not all who speak the “gay lingo” are part of the LGBT community. By studying the effects of using “Bekimon” we can see how it will affect the memory retrieval of the students. Some of the people misunderstood some words or even the people who uses the gay lingo, because some says it can ruin the culture and the main language of the Filipinos but actually it’s the other way around because some terms are now frequently used than before. The definition of “Bekimon” is: (Noun) (Expression) Defines gays or girly gays that speaks “Gay Lingo” or gay language in a different way or more enhanced way. (2014 Farlex, Inc.) Although most of the older people are not yet open to homosexuality, the younger generation are now much aware and much open to homosexuality making...
Words: 835 - Pages: 4
...3 in 1 People may think that they talk the same to everyone. I think people are like a clover one plant but with three parts. With some observations I want to go into depth and determine if people change the ways they talk depending on whom they are talking to, family, friends and co-works/ professional world. I feel that the way someone speaks determines the way people think about them. It is important because no one wants their co-workers to think they are not smart or friends to think they are arrogant. I took the time to go and observed two people in their daily lives. I followed Mark and Tina around for six hours each- two at work, two with their family, and two with their friends. Mark is 50 years old and has 3 children; he has been working in the same factory as Tina for the last 30 years. Tina has been working in this plant for the last 7 years and is 30 years old. She also has 2 children. I chose to follow Mark and Tina because they work at the same factory, went to the same high school, and grew up in the same area. I did this because I felt like this would make my observations close to each other, therefore if there are any changes in the way they talk between family, friends, and co-workers it would reduce the chances that it could be from outside influences. The first time I went to observe I went to a factory in Findlay, Ohio to see both Tina and Mark at the same time. I sat and observed them without asking them any questions. I did not want to...
Words: 2607 - Pages: 11
...made by gays. This study differs to behavior of a person that why they adapt this kind of language or slang. This gay language nowadays can be uttered by non-gay. Many researchers did have studied years ago, by the gathered information’s the community truly respects and accepts the gay speak. Contrary to expectation, the analysis showed that by uttering a word as such, the one you are talking to gives an idea of how the ones truly feel; sometimes it serves as it a role to express how you feel by saying just one gay speak term. INTRODUCTION: Bekimon, jejemon, gayspeak, conyo, street-talk are the one of the new born language in the Philippines. It was a informal manner of speaking because of the mix language, dialect and even celebrities that contains a new whole different meaning. Do you hear some word such as pabebe, pa-chix, X-men, beki, baklush, tiboom, lesibiana, gaysia and pa-girl? You only find it in the Philippines, it was made by Gays or Homosexuals. It was literally fun in the Phillipines just like a advertisement in a TV ad, you’ll also enjoy the people here while enjoying the tourist spots. Gay speak is very viral and blunt communication by gays. Gay speak barrier in separating gay and non-gays. Today,...
Words: 2121 - Pages: 9
... Joanna Marie N. Cabanatan Maricon A. Alisuag Jenny L. Carlos Fatima B. Dela Cruz Prof. Evangelina S. Seril CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION I. Introduction Today’s modern generation, many youth are engaged in different languages. Some of us have experienced being near to a group of gays who were talking in quite a different language and you were surprised that you could understand some of the words they were saying. That language is what we called gay lingo but in 1970s, it is Swardspeak. Here in the Philippines, they called the term, "Swardspeak" or "Gay Lingo". Nowadays it is one of the most prominent kinds of language that most of the youth rather people engaged to. It consists of mainly Filipino language, but also uses elements of English, Spanish and other Asian or foreign words (especially Japanese), gays make uses of words that are derived from other words and try to make the words colorful and enticingly comical. It is also their way of speaking and their own mannerisms that make it different to those of the females. Because of the spread of Swardspeak, many Filipino try to engange themselves and makes use of it. . Like any other languages, Swardspeak is also dynamic, it evolves easily. According to Reinerio A. Alba, this commonness of gay words is fascinatingly infectious. II. Background of the study The word "Swardspeak", according to Jose Javier Reyes, was coined by columnist and movie critic Nestor Torre in...
Words: 6747 - Pages: 27
...full potential. One of those obstacles is what I call communication barriers. There are many examples of communication barriers, most of which we do not even know are there. In the following pages, I will be sharing with you the barriers that block effective communication and how to overcome them to communicate effectively. One of the first things people think of when they think of communication barriers is language. This is generally agreed upon that someone who does not speak the language you speak has a harder time understanding. This is a difficult one to overcome. Time Magazine wrote on November, 26 1956, Nikita Khruschev, The Communist leader of the Soviet Union, addressed the United Nations. His words were misinterpreted and translated as “We will bury you!” This was a time when the Cold War was at large and was believed to be a threat of nuclear annihilation, when in reality he was talking about economic superiority. The easiest answer to this is to arm yourself with knowledge of who you are talking to. By immersing yourself in the culture of the people who you are trying to understand, their language becomes simpler as time goes on. But is often not just a difference of language. Many times people share a common language such as English, but have differing accents. For example a person from New York City and a person from Mobile, Alabama have drastically different accents simply because of where they were...
Words: 2536 - Pages: 11
...television and social media. The importance of language is essential to every aspect and interaction. It propels everyday life and keeps us in touch with one another. Through many historical instances, we have developed further insight into increasing our ability in the way of language by telegrams, post, telephone, e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging. People talk in some form everyday whether it be calling a friend to check on them or catching up on different online forums. Language is used to inform the people around us of our different feelings, desires and questions. Through the years, people have been making a list of new vocabulary on the board. Demands on our time have become bigger because of this rise in talking and so we shorten words and sentences. People have become inconvenienced by how much explaining there is and so “slang” is born. These are alternative words or phrases that express either something new or something old in a new way. Its colorful metaphors are generally directed at decency. It is brief, even witty but it can also be disrespectful. Slang, then, contains not just words but words used in a different way in a certain social context. When an individual applies language in a new way to express themselves, they may be creating slang, but the new expression will die unless it is picked up...
Words: 2515 - Pages: 11
...confidential information somewhere which is miles away and not really knowing how they deal with customer’s sensitive information that can lead to identity theft and many other harmful things. The major outsourcing job I researched is the call center industry. They have hundreds of different call centers in India. Most companies operate at night. They take hundreds of calls on a daily basis. They have daily recruiting sessions to hire people to work in the call center. Over 700 people stand in lines and apply daily to get picked for a customer service position. Out of the 700 applicants they only pick about 6% of them to have a position. The call centers in India offer classes for people to learn how to talk without the accent. They teach them the American lingo and some of them even use an American name to try to fit in when taking calls. The make about $1000 dollars a month in American dollars. Working at the call centers you must be able to handle high call volumes, angry customers, and be able to solve minor to sever problems. globalzilation I think the main negative point for India is that the young generation of people are losing the essence of their culture. They have become more materialistic and they are now aware of the brands and fashion that they wear today. They have changed the way they dress to mimic what Americans wear. So the traditional India society has changed drastically. The cultural ways has changed which the older generation is not in agreement with. Usually...
Words: 662 - Pages: 3
...Poor Writing Skills In the Workforce In today’s society texting, e-mails, twitter, facebook, and many other forms of communication have evolved. Throughout these technological advances come many different forms of communication. Since the evolution of texting, people have evolved to say things faster and in less wording to make their point get across. But over the last several years, the workforce has taken these texting acronyms and lingos to their jobs and it’s not going well. Because of this, people can’t communicate efficiently or affectively and companies are noticing. What’s worse is that it seems to get worse and worse and people are becoming very lazy and illiterate about proper English. If this keeps up, companies will suffer from poor communication and we could see a change in how English is perceived today. To begin, the whole era of texting in acronyms and smile faces and extra symbols started with teens. Always in a hurry to say what’s on their mind, teens started inventing faster ways to communicate to one another. At first it was a great idea if you needed to send a quick message to your sibling or friend. But soon it evolved into that’s how teens started writing their papers and became more illiterate. Now as these young generations are hitting the workforce, companies aren’t taking a liking to it. Because the older generation didn’t grow up texting all day they don’t understand what some of the acronyms mean. It also makes it very hard to read when words are...
Words: 643 - Pages: 3
...that covers the definition of the different basic terms related to jejemon and historical background of the jejemon language, the significance of the study that states why and to whom this study is beneficial, the statement of purpose that identifies the objectives of this research study, the statement of the problem that consists of the problems that this study is covering to answer and the scope and limitation that enumerates the extent of this research study. A. Introduction Language is very important in our life. It is used to express our thoughts and ideas to communicate with others. In this modern era, language changes constantly. The language that we use today is getting wider and wider. Nowadays, we use technology like cellphones and computers to convey our messages and through these, people are learning on how to cope up and change the way they convey their thoughts and ideas in different forms. Indeed, English proficiency is one of the important things that we need to practice. The proper usage of both Filipino and English language is one of the important aspects of Philippine education. Correct grammar, syntax and pronunciation are the main concerns of improving our language proficiency to maintain an effective communication locally and internationally, but due to the continuous development of language, the emergence of Jejemon words became a phenomenon in the Philippines especially on its online breakthrough on April 14, 2010 at Pinoy Tumblr. Jejemons...
Words: 11283 - Pages: 46
...Imagining a robot to behave just like a human is one of those new-age fantasies of almost everyone who can bottle even a tiny glimpse of a vision of the future. For people like us who sometimes manage to think of things other than just the daily survival have a lot of room for all kinds of strange dreams. Sometimes this also leads us to build all kinds of blue-sky thinking. Stepping off the quicksand let me classify ourselves as a group of individuals who have much time to think so as to recycle all kinds of emotions into this moment all over again. We very well know how it does feel when we are ecstatic about something, or when we are embarrassed, or sometimes get a shock of our lives, sometimes feel like crying our hearts out or sometimes plain bored to death. We can relate to all kind of feelings that ranges between these exaggerated memes, can’t we? But how do you relate if you were a robot? I would say that this is where you would feel the hint of a brainteaser, even if I assume your IQ to surpass Einstein’s. The fact that there is even a problem here seem to elude most people, it's hard to realize what it is and even harder to explain it. There is this default position that consciousness is, in principle, knowable and explainable in the framework of modern neurology and that there are no reasons to think otherwise. But did I mention earlier that I, for some daunting series of events, have started conceiving myself as a robot?! You might and should guffaw over this, but...
Words: 1005 - Pages: 5
...the 21st Century For my observation, I attended a high school football game. On this particular night it was the homecoming for the school I had once attended. I was very excited and eager to see the changes of the school and the different attitudes of the students that attends now. When glancing through the crowds, there was an array of different age groups. Their were elementary age children, middle school, high school students and an large mount of alumni, including my self. With such a big group of attendance, I was able to focus my observation on a small group of high school boys and girls that had just recently graduated from the school. They were excited like everyone to see if our school would finally win their homecoming game and to support the school. As I begin to observe this group, I glanced around at the clothing and body art of the students. Now mind you it is an evening game. You could see a large number of people wearing the school colors which are red, white and blue. I had on my colors too but was bundled up with blanket wrapped around me. But these kids were wearing close to nothing at all. The girls had on mid drift blouses , very small shorts and tennis shoes. The boys wore baseball hats, jerseys and skinny jeans that fell way below their butts. And yes, all of these students had at least one tattoo or body piercing on their bodies. In further observing them, their communication styles it is what I expected. They were...
Words: 706 - Pages: 3
...great indeed. All projects during the program would be nothing the enthusiasm and imagination from all of you. Besides, this program makes us realized the value of working together as a team and as a new experience in working environment, which challenges us every minute. The whole library paper really brought us together to appreciate the true value of friendship and respect of each other. Also we want to thank www.google.com for giving us resources and information. Lastly, We offer our regards and blessings to all of those who supported us in any respect during the completion of the project. Dedication We are lovingly dedicated this library paper to our family, especially to our ather and our mother who us each step of the way. We also dedicate this to all our classmates in BSIT-1I who gives us support, joy, and unforgettable memories. Table of Contents...
Words: 1079 - Pages: 5
...use cell phones also use the SMS text messaging that these phones feature. This study takes a look at some of the effects and potential problems arising from the use of this text messaging. A survey of students and instructors at Lane Community College found that 70% of those surveyed believed that texting had harmful effects on students writing skills. However, studies that were analyzed found that texting is actually beneficial. While 54% of teenagers text others on a daily basis only 33% of teenagers talk to others face-to-face, yet it is too early in research to draw a conclusion on whether texting is harmful to their social skills. Most people know that text messaging while driving is very dangerous, yet the studies analyzed as well as the surveys conducted show that some people are still willing to take that risk. Table of Contents: Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………….1 List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………...1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..2 Methodology……………………………………………………………………………….2 Participants………………………………………………………………………………...2 Results…………………………………………………………………………………..3-18 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………..19 References………………………………………………………………………………..20 List of Figures: Edutopia.org Survey Pie Chart………………………………………………………….4 LCC Student Survey Bar Graph……………………………………………………......5 LCC Instructor...
Words: 8499 - Pages: 34
...Teams can bond workers together in a common goal, thereby improving loyalty and moral for a company. According to best selling authors Peters and Waterman (2004) In Search of Excellence the true power of small groups in business lie in their flexibility. Teams can be formed for specific purposes and do not need to fit into any one specific division, and this lack of formality allows them to become an effective problem-solving tool. They have the empowerment necessary to make change and provide implementation without the bureaucratic overhead found elsewhere. Men and women come together with a common purpose, but rather than using words like “teams”, terminology changes to words such as “marriage”, “family” and “partnerships”. Bookstores line their shelves with books that show the reader ways on preserving, enhancing, even fixing a marriage. Empirical evidence gathered argues this may be a good thing. Gottman (1999) writes in The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work that it’s been found that people who remain married will...
Words: 1112 - Pages: 5
...com/2010/06/jejemon-history-how-it-all-began.html Jejemon History: How It All Began Several years ago, a lot of the youth joined text messaging clans while others played online MMORPG games like Ragnarok, Flyff, and Gunbound. Some, with the urge to find and get to know people of all ages online, joined in social networks like Friendster and Multiply. At that time, Friendster was in while Facebook was not what it turned out to be at present. Due to the necessity of having to relay a message abruptly so as not to be delayed in action (while playing, texting or commenting), they tried to make messages they type really short to an extent that every word was internally altered using numbers to creatively displace letters that would still make the words readable. Of course, Jejemonism was not that intense and obvious at that time. It took a longer time before the more educated ones realized that something's not right and one thing has to be done - to abide by what is being conventionally dictated by society. At that moment, many of the younger generation became adapted to this kind of typing style for they really thought that it was somehow cool, manageable and widely accepted within their age range. It was the new hip at that time, but as it grew out of nowhere, concerned academic people took this as a threat to the educational standards. In time, Jejemonism became the latest source of boiling social debates. As time propelled and confusion arose, people who got addicted to this...
Words: 7415 - Pages: 30
