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Language indeed swayed how civilization perceives the world today. The language development replicates the growth and changes that takes place in the society nowadays and one distinguishable group at present who replicates these changes is the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community who is known to have several variety of spoken language in the Philippines. Gays are branded through their social class, movements, postures, and most of all their variations of language in which is present in different expanses in the archipelago. Wardaugh (2006) describes the language as an individual and social possession.
Language has a way of keeping up with such growth in society and one of the reasons why changes in words take place is that there are too many new ideas that lead to …show more content…

Gay language is simply an adaptation of the mainstream language like English, Filipino, and Cebuano to shield themselves from the discrimination of the heterosexuals, gays constructed their language through simple reversal, syllabic reversal, simple reversal with affixation, clipping with affixation, straight words with affixation, and connotation through images. According to Cayabyab (2013), gay language is a play of words and it is done through adding or omitting something from a Filipino root word, twisting words to fit a new meaning or rhyme it with popular names, brand or streets.
One distinctive feature that can be found in gay language is the use of gendered pronoun and proper nouns. Cameron & Kulick, (2003) noted that “A very common usage in the speech of male homosexuals is the substitution of feminine pronouns and titles for properly masculine ones”. Gay people address and refer to called themselves by using the terms Mang (Mother), Ses (Sister), Ante (Aunt), Inday (Girl), Maninay

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