Pinoyisms is crowd-sourced . . . or more accurately, rice-sourced.
The mangled, halo-halo’d sayings, idioms, and memes we love are both decades old and freshly blurted out on the spot. They come from the same culture that turned funny store names into a national art form:
One modern classic is the area behind Rockwell (famous shopping/entertainment district in Makati.) The area is officially Poblacion, but it's been nicknamed Backwell. Lab it!
My brother and I started this ad hoc collection, cracking each other up by spouting these gems—intentional or gloriously accidental. Just hearing “Looks can be this evening” was enough to send us into hysterics, trading more butchered Taglish lines back and forth.
Ultimately, Pinoyisms celebrates the charm of Filipinos by spotlighting our knack for laughing at our own malapropisms. By blending, mangling, and mixing Tagalog and English, our idioms, sayings, and memes take on delightfully new meanings—showing exactly why we’re known as one of the world’s most easygoing and hospitable cultures.
Hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Submissions always welcome: galing@pinoyisms.com