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Pak Ganern Game is a modern game which is now gain too much popularity in the Philippines. The game actually derived from the Filipino clap game "Nanay, Tatay" but in this new set of game, players need to say "Pak Ganern" instead of "Nanay, Tatay". While playing the game, when someone commits a mistake, he or she will be punished as the other players agreed. According to anthropologist and professor Felipe Jocano Jr from the University of the Philippines-Diliman in his interview, a phrase like "pak ganern" appeals to the Pinoy humor. He said that “Ganern” came from a Filipino word “ganoon” undergoing rhotic harmony while “pak” is “tumpak” though it may also be just an old onomatopoeia for explosions. Combine the two words and you may come up another different meaning. Jocano says this linguistic manner of humbling one's self using humor is very much a Filipino cultural trait. And although there is no inherent or absolute meaning to either "pak" or "ganern", speakers of the language can still instantly come up sentence constructions that sound like a winner.

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