Why do students speak Gay lingo?
For Heterosexual students
The aim of the speakers is to be au courant. Heterosexual students want to show that they are well-informed in this genre of speaking. They want to let people know that they also have the capacity to speak gay lingo eventhough they are not inside the world of the homosexual where it is spoken. Also, their intention is to be modern. Since social media has made swardspeak popular, students are exposed to it and thus influencing them to use it. Students who use swardspeak want to be updated. They aim to be conscious of the latest and newest word of the twists and turns of the new verbal acrobatic act.
According to a Philippine Star journalist, Samantha King, “In the world of language, young people who find it too torturous to expound on ideas simply invent new words — or butcher the meanings of old ones instead.”. Students will never be loss for words when they got a universal substitute for just about every noun, adverb or adjective in existence--- like the use of the word “chorva.” This is very popular among some students. They use it when they lack of the right words to say. Some words from the gay lingo are used by the students as fillers when they have to express something and they can’t or won’t find the formal words to say. With gay lingo, students can speak easier. They can express themselves easily now that they have gay lingo.
Based on the college experience of Eunice Beatrice H. Braga, a magna cum laude of University of the Philippines, Diliman now a journalist of The Philippines Star, gay lingo is easy to be adopted. Her essay about it says that she had learned it when she was associating with University of the Philippine’s resident members. She explained that she had no intention of speaking queer being the grammar geek that she is but she just couldn’t help to adapt gay lingo during her stay