Talk:Jeepney

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[edit] E-Jeepney

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I would like to add/post this photo on the Jeepney article... Do you agree? and please feel free to edit/add it...thnx -- ミゲル / miguel | Talk 19:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I can append the E-jeepney image to the article, just as soon as it's given the proper copyright tag. It would be a waste of effort if the image is just deleted after a week. -- • Kurt Guirnela • ‡ Talk 02:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

Jeep+knee sounds contrived. Jeep + jitney is the most common etymology I've heard and was taught as such in a transportation engineering course I took years ago. Since the jeepney has its roots in the surplus jeeps after WWII, contact with remaining US servicemen would have introduced the term jitney - especially from those GIs from the south, where the term was more common.Michael Daly 17:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Guess I'll edit out the "knee" reference. -- • Kurt Guirnela • ‡ Talk 03:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I see the improbable "knee" has made it back in. I will edit it out.Greener08 (talk) 19:49, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] parlance

I'd like to add this section for non-Tagalog speakers.

  • Bayad (po). - Here's the payment(sir).
  • Para.- Stop
  • Magakano sa Santa Cruz?- How much to Santa Cruz?
  • Mayroon ba sa Padre Faura?- Is there (anyone getting off) at Padre Faura?

--Jondel (talk) 08:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)