[JoseQuinones]

Can any of our in-house Filipinos explain why all the funeral decorations/headstones/coffin draperies are always in English?

[SimoneFlen']

Originally Posted by TheCruxofBag ↗

In Cambodia's Kandal province, three teenagers lost their lives after drowning while playing in the water.

[philovan]

Originally Posted by JoseQuinones ↗

Can any of our in-house Filipinos explain why all the funeral decorations/headstones/coffin draperies are always in English?

My wife tells me that English is a de facto lingua franca in much of the Philippines. Even though Tagalog is the "official" language, it is in fact only the dialect of the Manila region. Many Filipinos in the provinces speak better English than Tagalog, although their own regional dialect predominates. There are so many different regional languages that English is often the bridge.

[philovan]

Originally Posted by TheCruxofBag ↗

In Cambodia's Kandal province, three teenagers lost their lives after drowning while playing in the water.

So far, I only have good post-mortem images on one of the victims, and videos of two of them being pulled out of the water. Maybe more will surface.

So did a RIP current get them?

[JoseQuinones]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

My wife tells me that English is a de facto lingua franca in much of the Philippines. Even though Tagalog is the "official" language, it is in fact only the dialect of the Manila region. Many Filipinos in the provinces speak better English than Tagalog, although their own regional dialect predominates. There are so many different regional languages that English is often the bridge.

Huh. Very interesting.

Especially because the Phillippines were Spanish for centuries, then America took over the Phillippines at the same time they took over Puerto Rico, in 1898, and then the Phillippines went independent in the 1950's. But Spanish is the lingua franca here and English, while commonly spoken by the educated who went to private school, is not universal in any meaningful sense. I wonder why Spanish stuck on here and not there.

[disconap]

What in the actual fuck is this?!?

[Yoloman]

looks like a male child, dead

[philovan]

Originally Posted by JoseQuinones ↗

Huh. Very interesting.

Especially because the Phillippines were Spanish for centuries, then America took over the Phillippines at the same time they took over Puerto Rico, in 1898, and then the Phillippines went independent in the 1950's. But Spanish is the lingua franca here and English, while commonly spoken by the educated who went to private school, is not universal in any meaningful sense. I wonder why Spanish stuck on here and not there.

There was great resentment toward Spanish rule in the PI as it was often cruel. The Americans were always better regarded, even when the Philippines were striving for independence and showed signs of rebellion. For instance, in WW 2 the Filipino underground helped the Americans there who escaped from the Bataan death march and also conducted guerilla activities against the occupying Japanese.

[JoseQuinones]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

There was great resentment toward Spanish rule in the PI as it was often cruel. The Americans were always better regarded, even when the Philippines were striving for independence and showed signs of rebellion. For instance, in WW 2 the Filipino underground helped the Americans there who escaped from the Bataan death march and also conducted guerilla activities against the occupying Japanese.

Yes.

The Spanish were cruel and sadistic bastiges everywhere they went, including here. One of our Spanish governors amused himself by riding out with a company as if for fox hunting and mowing down Taíno Indians, meztizos, and runaway slaves for sport. He would bring their heads back and display them on the city gate.

This and other horrors were commonplace.

But nowadays your average Puerto Rican looks back on those times with misty-eyed nostalgia and quietly loathes the Americans. This place would be Haiti without the American wealth transfers.

[GillesDeRays]

8 March 2015 ·
Woman is stabbed and body abandoned in stream in Pedro Juan Caballero
On Sunday morning (08), International Women's Day, Paraguayan police officers were alerted by strangers that the lifeless body of an unidentified woman was found in a stream located in the Potreroi colony in the city of Zanja Pyta
According to information, she was executed with several stab wounds to the chest and abandoned at the scene.
the victim would be Brazilian according to the constitution and was sent to the iml of hr de pedro juan waiting for family members