Bien Chabacano

Here's something to consider. Did you know that the word tiangue  may not necessarily mean the same thing in Cebuano and Chabacano? When my mom wanted to buy some fish, she asked the tricycle driver in Pagadian to take her to the tiangue  but she was so surprised when the driver took her to a shopping center with bargain stalls. She later found out that in Cebuano (at least maybe the one spoken in Pagadian), the word for a wet market was mercado  and not tiangue . In Tagalog, the word tiangge  normally brings to mind places like Divisoria and Greenhills where one can buy clothes, accessories, shoes, electronics... practically anything at very low prices. In Chabacano, the word  tiangue  means 'wet market' or a market which sells vegetables and maybe some fruits. In fact, we even have a verb formed out of this noun and that is man tiangue . Normally, when someone says he would go man tiangue , it means that he would be buying meat, vegetables, and...