2007-09-29 10:32:16 · 9 answers · asked by Rode|ette ۩ 6 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Philippines
Ah, the vagaries of the English language ;-)
2007-09-29 10:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
HAHA It has something to do with the direction of our hand when we do scrubbing and washing. Think about it...when we scrub, the movement is usually downwards (pababa) - as in removing the dirt and making it go down. And when we wash (esp. our face), the strokes are upwards (pataas) - every girl knows that - it prevents our skin face from sagging!
2007-09-30 05:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Inday 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because whenever we scrub, it always starts from the upper part of our torsos down to our feet. When we wash, the direction of the flow of the water is away from our faces or our hands excluding our bodies, of course, because we never say 'I would like to wash up my body.'
2007-10-02 07:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by annabelle p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all to do with gravity.
Before we had power showers and the like you washed from the bottom upwards. That way when you reached the top you were using (relatively) clean water to rinse the rest of you.
I agree English is odd, try explaining to a foreigner how a "Fat chance" and a "Slim chance" are exactly the same thing !!
Ian M
2007-09-29 19:14:43 · answer #4 · answered by Ian M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's also "wash down".
I wash down the pulutan (finger food) with beer, right jongbong?
2007-10-01 07:01:25 · answer #5 · answered by boyplakwatsa.com 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In line with what the person above me said, I might add:
hard up, hard on, shut up, dream on, and so on.
2007-09-29 18:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes because we can .....do both ....even wash out
2007-10-01 11:41:28 · answer #7 · answered by bobonumpty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
zzz... because we have to do it upside-down. hmmm... beer... zzz...
2007-09-30 02:07:08 · answer #8 · answered by jongbong 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
exactly correct!!! ate inday. thanks sa idea.
2007-09-30 22:12:30 · answer #9 · answered by PG_13 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋