Growing up into a society that socially accepts gays and other members of the LGBT, children

grow accustomed to the gay language and mostly involve it in their daily lives. Gays have been a
great subject to social discrimination, taunts, ridicules and mockery. One of the ways the
discriminated gays thought of was to come up with a code that only they will understand in order
to hide from the prying eyes and ears of the society they move in. But because of the everyday
and frequent use of the code in parlors, sidewalks, comedy bars and other places where gays
frequently hang out.
Today’s modern generation, many youth are engaged in different languages. Some of us have
experienced being near to a group of gays who were talking in quite a different language and you
were surprised that you could understand some of the words they were saying. That language is
what we called gay lingo but in 1970s, it is Swardspeak.
Here in the Philippines, they called the term, "Swardspeak" or "Gay Lingo". Nowadays it is one
of the most prominent kinds of language that most of the youth rather people engaged to. It
consists of mainly Filipino language, but also uses elements of English, Spanish and other Asian
or foreign words (especially Japanese), gays make uses of words that are derived from other
words and try to make the words colorful and enticingly comical. It is also their way of speaking
and their own mannerisms that make it different to those of the females. Because of the spread of
Swardspeak, many Filipino try to engange them and makes use of it.
The freedom of the gay language allows it to be a good subject for a study on the grammaticall
rules involved with this because the language is free from the dictates of the society. The
language’s continuous update on words that also constantly reaches the masses that are exposed
to the language. Gay language is also an influence not only to the youth but also to adults.

Conclusion
Gay lingo is one of our inherent rich languages and therefore it is also a part of our culture right
now. No matter how many people oppose it, gay lingo has really been stuck in the daily routine
of speaking. We may not know it, but we are continually using the language of gays as we speak
we actually added color and fun in our ordinary conversations and in a way had boosted the
morale of our fellow Filipinos when it comes to speaking. How? As we have said, gay lingo is a
portmanteau of Taglish and Carabao English; in a way people started asserting themselves in
speaking in English through gay lingo even though they know that it is grammatically wrong. It
has been a way of poking fun at the society, being proud of your social status and eventually
breaking the barrier of communication between the peoples.

Gay lingo truly mirrors and reinforces the culture of freedom. It is the freedom to expandour
Filipino vocabulary, the freedom to express yourself in a more creative and wittier way and
thefreedom from dictation given by the society. It does not encourage hedonism as other
conservatives would believe. As we could see the status of gay lingo now, it is now in the
mainstream of Filipinocommunication and consciousness and shows no signs of fading. We
believe that whatever is thefuture of this language, one thing is for sure:
Pinoy
lives would never be the same without the flamboyant jargon called gay lingo.