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How to Conjugate a Verb in Different Ways

Korean and Japanese have these honorific conjugations for verbs. Javanese has a whole different set of vocab. They've got three levels, depending on the familiarity and formality respect. But in the Philippines, B Call, for example, has an angry register. So like the normal word for dog would change to a whole unrelated word when you're angry - how does that happen? It's very interesting to me.

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