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Re: McD - I'm lovin' it (again)

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 17:10
Chris Bates wrote:
> I recognise the bits after love as Tagalog, but what puzzles me is.. > isn't there a native word for love in the language? Surely there must > be... I'm going to go check my Tagalog dictionary now. >
I first thought it was some kind of weird Englishified Malay (with o for u in "ku, (i)tu"), maybe, but Tagalog is right on. Yes, there must be a perfectly good native word; my Tag. dictionary is Tag-Engl. only, so it would take a while to find it... Probably this is a good example of what's called Taglish :-)))