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The Tagalog word "malas" means "bad luck"... no wonder he's losing...

Interestingly in Spanish it also means "bad" though nothing about luck...

Do you know the meaning of 'malas' in the CY dialect?

tsukoui wrote:The Tagalog word "malas" means "bad luck"... no wonder he's losing...

Interestingly in Spanish it also means "bad" though nothing about luck...

bearing in mind the Philipines were a Spanish Possession forr close on 350 years it would not surprise me if the Tagalog word has a Spanish link, rather more plausible than Japnese words coming from Greek,,,

supporttheunderdog wrote:

tsukoui wrote:The Tagalog word "malas" means "bad luck"... no wonder he's losing...

Interestingly in Spanish it also means "bad" though nothing about luck...

bearing in mind the Philipines were a Spanish Possession forr close on 350 years it would not surprise me if the Tagalog word has a Spanish link, rather more plausible than Japnese words coming from Greek,,,

Philip(ines) is a Greek word. It's also the name of your queen's Greek husband.

indeedy doody - horse lover - as for Phil the Greek being Greek, I think he might have had one Greek Ancestor about 500 years back - his family was of course German/Danish imposed on the Greeks by the European great powers to bring Greece within the family business of monarchical rule, and if I recall he was stateless after his family were foced to flee Greece. Now the boy has done good you want him back?

supporttheunderdog wrote:indeedy doody - horse lover - as for Phil the Greek being Greek, I think he might have had one Greek Ancestor about 500 years back - his family was of course German/Danish imposed on the Greeks by the European great powers to bring Greece within the family business of monarchical rule, and if I recall he was stateless after his family were foced to flee Greece. Now the boy has done good you want him back?

I confused you.

A great Englishman* (rare ) once said, "We are all Greeks".

*:Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mala means in Italian also bad! Are you familiar with the Cyprus word "Malapapas"? it actually means "Bad Pope"!

elmakris wrote:Mala means in Italian also bad! Are you familiar with the Cyprus word "Malapapas"? it actually means "Bad Pope"!

So Zonk is a bad pope.

elmakris wrote:Mala means in Italian also bad! Are you familiar with the Cyprus word "Malapapas"? it actually means "Bad Pope"!

No, it is derived from the french word 'malappris', i.e. 'clumsy blockhead'.

'Malas' has nothing to do with 'malapapas': It means 'trowel'.

yialousa1971 wrote:

elmakris wrote:Mala means in Italian also bad! Are you familiar with the Cyprus word "Malapapas"? it actually means "Bad Pope"!

So Zonk is a bad pope.

A pope can't be good.