Starting not to be a ‘dedma nation’

FEIGNING unawareness is what the Tagalog street term “dedma” means.

It is a Taglish construction. “Ded” is the rendering in Tagalog of the English word “dead.” And “ma” is the first syllable of the Spanish word for “malice” used in Tagalog as “malisya.” The Tagalog phrase “patay malisya” which means “no malice noticed” can therefore be expressed in Taglish as “dead malisya” and therefore can be abbreviated into “dedma.”