A Secret Gay Language Has Gone Mainstream in the Philippines - 0 views
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Lara Cowell on 27 Jan 24A coded lexicon mostly spoken by gay men, Swardspeak draws from English and Tagalog, as well as Spanish and, to a lesser extent, Japanese. It's what might be referred to as an "anti-language," the lingua franca of an "anti-society"-in this case, the Philippines' gay subculture.