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The institute judged the competition based on these papers. The presenters defended the words in the top 10 with full-on research papers. On a lighter note, Peña noted how Filipinos joked about how they thought “tsismosas” or neighborhood gossips would make good contact tracers. “Tokhang” was Sawikaan’s Salita ng Taon in 2018. He associated it with red-tagging and Oplan Tokhang under the Duterte administration. Its presenter Romeo Peña highlighted how the term took on a meaning unique to the Philippine context. “ Ang dapat itakwil at layuan ay ‘yung mga lideratong palpak, at hindi ang isa’t isa (What we should disown and shun is inept leadership, and not one another),” Jamendang said. Yol Jamendang, the term’s presenter, described the misery social distancing is causing many people, himself included, and how it embodies the authorities’ ineptitude in addressing the pandemic. Santos said she also pushed for “pandemya” to be the country’s word of the year for 2020 to help get Filipinos to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, and to prepare for future pandemics, because they are bound to happen.Īlthough the 9 other presenters defended their “words of the year” excellently, “pandemya” is the “root cause” of the other words making the shortlist, the “mother” of all the other entries, said Santos. Filipinos hardly ever Googled “pandemya” or “pandemic” before COVID-19, she added.
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Many Filipinos didn’t seem to know what a pandemic was until it hit the country in March, Santos said. (In my opinion, this is the biggest word with the most relevant meaning, which I think should be explained to the people as to the nature and characteristics of a pandemic, because it has a huge impact on the world.) “Sa tingin ko, ito ‘yung pinakamalaking salita na may pinakamakabuluhang kahulugan, na sa tingin ko ay nararapat talagang maipaliwanag sa mga tao kung ano talaga ang kalikasan at katangian ng isang pandemya, dahil napakalaki ng epekto nito sa mundo,” said Zarina Joy Santos, whose paper defending “pandemya” as the word of the year bested the other 9. “Pandemya” is Sawikaan’s Salita ng Taon (Word of the Year) for 2020.
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“2020” itself is one of the top 10, for being the name of the year humanity will be talking about for a long time, and will probably never forget.īut the one word that put all these other words in people’s mouths – new terms and old ones that have taken on new meanings – is already in the title of the event, for very obvious reasons: “pandemya” (pandemic). “Ayuda,” “blended learning,” “contact tracing,” “quarantine,” “social distancing,” “testing,” “virus,” and “webinar” were 8 of the top 10 “Salita ng Taon” (Words of the Year) selected by the Filipinas Institute of Translation based on the best entries – with abstract explanations – that came in after a public callout in August. Presenters at Sawikaan 2020: Edisyong Pandemya (Pandemic Edition) put forward terms that, before March this year, were very rarely on Filipinos’ lips, if at all. What word best encapsulates the common Filipino experience this year?