Himantayon

I've been laughing my brains out the past hour or so, courtesy of Himantayon, a Cebuano website that claims to "chronicle the limits of our humanity"- whatever that means. I don't exactly know the equivalent of himantayon in Tagalog or English, the adjective observant, even when added with the adverb keenly doesn't seem to capture its essence, or the Tagalog pakialamero (nosy) is just darn too negative. So Marc, help out, how do we define it?

What I like best about the website is that humor and popular culture are captured casually in crackling, good old-fashioned Cebuano. I speak Cebuano fluently-- it is after all, my native tongue-- but it is the Northern Mindanao variety which is light-weight compared to the richer, more archaic and antiquated (for my ears) language spoken in Cebu, the kind I get to hear only on AM radio stations.

I remember feeling amused when I heard someone say "nalisang ko" (I was confounded) since it has a very poetic ring to it. Very much like listening to a Provençal dialect, I imagine: you don't understand it, but it sounds pretty all the same

Marc, have you seen this site, nagsige ra ko og katawa :)