Popularity and Connotation of Pick up Lines
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
Ang pagmamahal ko sayo ay parang assignment na kinopya…
Bakit?
Kasi di ko maexplain.
With this statement, the conversation begins. It is actually called pick-up line. In pick up lines the speaker makes an introductory statement and the listener responds with “why” or “bakit” (Filipino) as mentioned in the above sample. Then the speaker attempts to express humor or whatever purpose by diverting to a different meaning of the term, phrase, or thought used in the initial statement.
As defined in Wikipedia, it is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging an unfamiliar person for romance, or dating. Overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target listeners. Pick-up lines range from straightforward conversation openers such as introducing or providing information about oneself, or asking someone about their likes to elaborate attempts including humor. In some side of the country, Pick-up line is done using our dialect “waray-waray” or Leyte-Samarnon. It is often used in a game between two persons exchanging pick-up lines. There is even a way to stop a person who’s trying to break a pick-up line by responding “estoryahe” after the initial statement (although it works too even after the follow-up line). Pick-up Lines are now trending, it is popular in television, media and text messaging which means it becomes popular culture in local term or colloquial words, it is named as “banat lines” which is popularized by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who also popularized pick up lines during the Reproductive Health Bill Forum in UP-Diliman in September 2011; in addition to that, pick up lines gained popularity in the Philippines when Star Cinema filmed “My Amnesia Girl”, a movie starring Filipino artists John Lloyd Cruz and Toni Gonzaga, used corny but sweet pick-up lines, that became as published bestselling Filipino movie of 2010 (Pick-up
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
Ang pagmamahal ko sayo ay parang assignment na kinopya…
Bakit?
Kasi di ko maexplain.
With this statement, the conversation begins. It is actually called pick-up line. In pick up lines the speaker makes an introductory statement and the listener responds with “why” or “bakit” (Filipino) as mentioned in the above sample. Then the speaker attempts to express humor or whatever purpose by diverting to a different meaning of the term, phrase, or thought used in the initial statement.
As defined in Wikipedia, it is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging an unfamiliar person for romance, or dating. Overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target listeners. Pick-up lines range from straightforward conversation openers such as introducing or providing information about oneself, or asking someone about their likes to elaborate attempts including humor. In some side of the country, Pick-up line is done using our dialect “waray-waray” or Leyte-Samarnon. It is often used in a game between two persons exchanging pick-up lines. There is even a way to stop a person who’s trying to break a pick-up line by responding “estoryahe” after the initial statement (although it works too even after the follow-up line). Pick-up Lines are now trending, it is popular in television, media and text messaging which means it becomes popular culture in local term or colloquial words, it is named as “banat lines” which is popularized by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who also popularized pick up lines during the Reproductive Health Bill Forum in UP-Diliman in September 2011; in addition to that, pick up lines gained popularity in the Philippines when Star Cinema filmed “My Amnesia Girl”, a movie starring Filipino artists John Lloyd Cruz and Toni Gonzaga, used corny but sweet pick-up lines, that became as published bestselling Filipino movie of 2010 (Pick-up
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