LNH20: Generation 2.0 #4

Martin Phipps martinphipps2 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 29 15:13:34 PST 2011


On Dec 29, 9:17 am, Lalo Martins <lalo.mart... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Jesus, Maria, José!" (strongest surprise interjection for a Brazilian
> Christian)

Here's an interesting fact: Filipinos tend to shorten names not by
taking the beginning of the name but the end so "Jesus Mary Joseph!"
is shortened to "Sus Mary Seph!".  Sometimes people just use "Sus!" as
an exclamation.  It took me a while to figure out what it meant.

Martin


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