Saturday, June 24, 2023

10 Grassroots’ Philosophy Quips

 10 Grassroots’ Philosophy Quips

A touch of sarcasm helps drive the point.

Dr Abe V Rotor

1 • Old man to young man: “I have eaten more rice than you had.” (Meaning the old man is more knowledgeable by experience.)

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway is rich in man-nature relationship philosophy.
 
2 • “Isang sigarilyo lang ang layo.” (It’s only a cigarette away - the distance covered by smoking a stick of cigarette.) 

3 • Old man to young boy: “Amoy gatas ka pa lang, hijo.” (“You smell of milk, child,” a sarcasm comparing ignorance with the innocence of a child.)


4 • “Pumurao ton’ diay uwak.” (Ilk) Literally, “The black crow will turn white.” You cannot wait for the impossible.

5 • “Hindi mo magising ang gising.” You can’t wake up one who is already awake.


6.• “Agannad ka no saan mo nga kayat ti agtangad ti barsanga.” This is a cold warning on the face, which literally means “Beware if you don’t like to look up at the grass.” (barsanga is sedge, a relative of the grass growing on open field).


7 • “Saan nga napan no saanna nga nayon.” (“It’s not there if it’s not part of it.” - referring for example, fly maggots in fermenting fish sauce or bagoong.)


8,• “Matira matibay” It refers to Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest.”


9 • “Aramid ti saan nga agdigdigos.” (“It;s a work of a hippie or bum.”)

10 • “Balat sibuyas.” (An expression that refers to one who easily gets peeved.)


11 • “Di ka pay la nakuret.” (Better if you had died of kuret, a tiny poisonous crab that resides in the gills of big fish.)

12 • Nothing goes up that does not go down. This phrase refers to one who has reached the pinnacle of wealth or power.

I invite the reader to continue this initial search of man’s way of thinking in the remote past. ~

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