Note 150 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
Reading edition
69. They are very material and literal in their conversations, and one cannot say the slightest word to the women in jest, however slight it be; for the most discreet thing that they will answer to one will be, Tampalasanca, which means, “You are a150 shameless fellow;” and, if not that,151 a tempest of words, that will make him repent having given occasion for them.152 This alone is their custom with the Spaniards.153