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Animo Explained
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After reading all your posts about the word Animo, I felt that it may be about time to get some first hand info from someone who was atually playing in the NCAA in the 1940s. You may find some links and have your opinions but still nothing beats first hand information.
Explaining what Animo meant to them in the 1940s is Mr. Eduardo “Mendy” Mendieta, the team captain of the 1947 - 48 NCAA Champion La Salle Seniors Basketball Team.
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pUrE bLoodEd wArriOr
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Saturday, 8 December 2007 at 1:12 pm
xmpre UE!!
all hail to UE for being the last year’s CCL champ!!
isang malinaw na proof yan!!
kaya ANIMO RED! ANIMO WHITE!
tira UE.
nga pala,
singit ko lang, UE CHORALE, no.1.. UE Grand pix, no.1 din..
ASTIG!
GO UE RED WARRIORS.
FIGHT!
pUrE bLoodEd wArriOr
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Saturday, 8 December 2007 at 1:12 pm
xmpre UE!!
all hail to UE for being the last year’s CCL champ!!
isang malinaw na proof yan!!
kaya ANIMO RED! ANIMO WHITE!
tira UE.
nga pala,
singit ko lang, UE CHORALE, no.1.. UE Grand Prix, no.1 din..
ASTIG!
GO UE RED WARRIORS.
FIGHT!
pUrE bLoodEd wArriOr
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Saturday, 8 December 2007 at 1:18 pm
cnxa po kung na-double ko ung pagpost..
my bad.. :(
red
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 at 1:13 pm
UE’s being red and white began just recently. They used to be blue and white as well.
I think idol ng UE ang San Beda that’s why they chose red and white and the warrior monicker - similar to San Beda’s Indian Icon.hehehe! And now, seems like purebloodedwarrior wants to use Animo in their cheers. haha!
No prob with me, I’ve got nothing against UEnians. ;)
Animo Red!
Animo White!
Go San Beda Fight!
Tira UE!
red
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 at 1:28 pm
please don’t dwell on San Beda vs. UE (or San Beda vs. La Salle because there is no such thing as far as i know not until Animo issues went out). In the end it will always be about the history, culture and how true and consistent we are in our traditions, so just keep the spirit alive and have a happy holidays. :D
pUrE bLoodEd wArriOr
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 at 7:21 pm
aww..
well niweiys,
happy holidays to everyone.. :))
animorah
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 at 12:41 pm
Tama!
San Beda ang nagpauso at nagsimula ng LAHAT ng magagandang bagay sa Phillipine Collegeiate Basketball — cheering, and all!
Bow kami sa inyo mga Bedista!
Kayo ang tunay na numbah 1!
Isipin niyo na lang na kung walang Ekwe, asa kangkunan pa rin kayo sa NCAA!!!!
Truth hurts!
INAMO BEDA!
learn how to french kiss&hellip
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Monday, 18 February 2008 at 5:30 am
learn how to french kiss…
The north and northwest have a temperate climate, however, a combination of maritime influences, latitude and altitude produce a varied climate…
Mang Roger
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 at 3:56 pm
INAMOY LA SALLE..
10635653
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 9:26 pm
San Beda may vaguely claim the rain chant or indian yell on the basis of its being more related to their native american theme. Having said that,they don’t have any basis for claiming that they were the first to use it since it only became popular though Woodstock. La Salle may have used it first,with no need to justify the indian-ness of it. In any case,San Beda couldn’t possibly have used it earlier (say,the time ANIMO came into prominence) because the concept of NATIVE AMERICANS was introduced by the AMERICANS. The Spanish-mestizo roots of san beda don’t support the idea of native americans.
10635653
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 9:44 pm
This issue just exposes how ignorant some people are. “Animo” meaning “spirit” is from Latin. We come from Spanish influences,and “Animo” may be taken to mean “courage” in Spanish.
Remember,Latin is a dead language. The “Animo” we use is derived from Spanish,a current and relevant romance language.
So,if effect,”ANIMO SPIRIT” essentially means “SPIRIT OF COURAGE.” I don’t see any redundancy there. So please,”PUSH THE LIMIT,ANIMO SPIRIT” all you want!
Besides,the Spanish language and culture features certain nuances and traits that have not successfully been transplanted to our Filipino/American consciousness.
Therefore,unless we are speaking in straight Spanish,trying to put “animo” into context in our everyday conversation is useless.
Let’s leave the word confined to the Spanish cheers of “Animo, La Salle!”
10635653
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 10:00 pm
Again,for Pete’s sake,THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “PROPER USAGE” OF THE WORD “ANIMO” IN ENGLISH. It is not an English word,so don’t try to give it an English meaning. It is the same with hundreds of Filipino or Tagalog words that don’t have direct translations into English because THESE WORDS EMBODY CONCEPTS AND IDEAS UNIQUE TO ONE LANGUAGE. So please,unless we’re speaking straight Spanish here,I don’t think anyone has any right to dictate how the word “animo” is used in our immediate society. So,in essence,”PUSH THE LIMIT,ANIMO SPIRIT” is neither wrong nor right. But since we commonly identify “animo” as referring to La Salle,it can be taken that the word is used in those shirts just as any trademark or emblem that represents La Salle. Lasallians do not give “animo” any definite meaning,they just IDENTIFY with it.
10635653
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 10:25 pm
Na-gets ko na ang sinabi ng gumawa ng Animoism shirts. They said they used the word “animo” because they couldn’t use “La Salle”. They chose “animo” becuase Lasallians see the word as a SYMBOL of their being Lasallians. They don’t take it to literaly mean anything in English or any other language. They simply use the word because they can IDENTIFY with it. ‘Yan ang wala ang Ateneo at San Beda,an identity that truly and rightfully proclaims “ANIMO!” That’s what people mean when they say ANIMO=LA SALLE. Animo IS La Salle,and La Salle IS animo.
nicksy
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 10:33 pm
@10635653
you can claim the word “Animo” all you want, and pls do Copyright it so you can sue other group who is going to use it(Animo), for me that is an argument not worth talking or discussing about. just respect and uderstand each sides, what is important is how the word characterize each community(La Salle, San Beda and other Univ/Col), and how it uplifts the morale of that community. and Btw, thanks for a research, nagabala ka pa.
Peace…
albert ayler disciple
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 11:45 pm
I went to a sportsbar but lo and behold! it was a class in linguistics!
juggler
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 1:05 am
can anybody show me here a peice that says the word “copyright”. puhlease. nobody gives you the right to own something when in fact it wasn’t you who first used it. (whether here in local collegiate basketball or in any other native american country..even the one who made the latin language.). so pulhease. unless you can show me a legal thing that will prove that you have the right to own it. it’s really not a matter of who first used it. (at least for non-bedans, non-lasallian or non-ateneans)
wharfl,eadi!
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 2:10 am
@nicksy and juggler
Whoever said anything about copyrigting? Whoever said anything about owning the word?
Whoever said anything about being the first to use it?
The point is, Lasallians identify with “animo” more strongly than do people from any other school. The word has been taken to embody almost everything La Salle. In a sense,embodying La Salle itself,hence the La Salle=Animo comments made by Animoism. It’s not just a word,as words belong to no one. It’s the recognition and association that Lasallians and non-Lasallians alike (except maybe for a few from admu or sbc) make between “animo” and La Salle through consistent and popular usage over 84 years. It’s like “eagle.” It’s just a normal word that nobody owns,and yet is immediately associated with one school. It embodies a concept and idea that is unique to ateneans that few outsiders would be able to appreciate. Same goes for “animo.” 84 years of consistent usage have branded it into the Lasallian identity and culture. Like “eagle,” it is no special word. But to a Lasallian who truly understands the personal meaning that the “animo” symbol embodies,it is so much more. Normal ateneans themselves would be surprised when they found out that ateneo used “animo” decades ago. They probably wouldn’t even know how to cheer it. Regular bedans wouldn’t really make a big deal of having the word “animo” in one of their cheers. It’s just there,not really making itself felt. I really don’t get why you people always try to push “ownership of animo” into Lasallians’ mouths. Again,the point is that “animo” holds a significance to Lasallians that is far more superior than that perceived by ateneans or bedans. We don’t care if you cheer it. We don’t care if you use it against us. What matters to us is our “animo pride” or “animo (the symbol) spirit,” the very Lasallian “animo” that no one can surpass or take away from us.
nicksy
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 2:29 am
@wharfl,eadi!
my “copyright” statement is just a sarcastic response to the people debating on who use the “Animo” first. just like I said before, that discussion is not worth arguing. and it is not important who use it first but what embodies and uplifts the morale of each community, again Understand and Respect each sides.
Grrr!
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 4:03 pm
La Salle and beda do not own the word animo. Kahit sino, pwede isigaw ito.
redlion
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 7:27 pm
True, nobody owns the word ‘animo’. Everybody has been using ever since, it’s just that it has been made popular by the schools who use it now, San Beda and La Salle, but with a BIG DIFFERENCE (not Caloy Loyzaga “Big Difference) on what they mean by the word animo.
San Beda has been using it ever since to mean ‘have courage’ in Spanish. Animo San Beda = Have Courage San Beda!
La Salle (and Ateneo) on the other hand has been using it ever since to mean ’spirit’ in Latin. Animo La Salle = Lasallian Spirit. As it has been repeatedly used/explained on their banners with the spirit by both la salle and ateneo.
redlion
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 7:35 pm
Or reapeadtly explained by at least the lasallians in the posts before mine, that they mean ‘animo’ as their school ’spirit’ of la salle.
Bedans mean it to “HAVE COURAGE”, not ’spirit’. That’s why we started getting confused about what they’re saying or their meaning when we see la salle and ateneo has been using them to mean ’spirit’. Anyway, it’s their school spirit / culture, it’s up to them how they use it. Let them worry about that and we’ll take care of our own school spirit, culture, and TRADITION.
HAVE COURAGE SAN BEDA! HAVE COURAGE BEDANS! “ANIMO SAN BEDA!”
redlion
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Friday, 27 June 2008 at 7:37 pm
Anyway, good luck to the Red Lions this Saturday in the opening game of the NCAA.
ANIMO SAN BEDA! BEAT MAPUA!
Bedan translation: Have Courage Red Lions! Beat the Cardinals! :-)
bystander
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 9:43 am
@10635653 You said: “San Beda may vaguely claim the rain chant or indian yell on the basis of its being more related to their native american theme. Having said that,they don’t have any basis for claiming that they were the first to use it since it only became popular though Woodstock. La Salle may have used it first,with no need to justify the indian-ness of it. In any case,San Beda couldn’t possibly have used it earlier (say,the time ANIMO came into prominence) because the concept of NATIVE AMERICANS was introduced by the AMERICANS. The Spanish-mestizo roots of san beda don’t support the idea of native americans.”
I actually agree with all of your other posts except this. Please allow me to correct you on a few points.
Bedans indeed claim (strongly and not just vaguely if I might add) that the rain chant and indian yell are part of their cheering traditions. And though the rain chant was of Woodstock vintage, the Indian Yell was not. The Indian Yell came much much earlier, late 40s to early 50s in fact. Evidence of this can be found in remaining copies of SBC’s cheer books from the era. I can even personally show you a copy if the music sheets for the Indian Yell which my father and uncles used to play when they were with the SBC Band in the 50s! Regardless of its Spanish-mestizo roots, it wasn’t “just possible” but it IS a fact that what you termed as “indian-ness” became a part of Bedan tradition. How come? Because of the color red.
As to La Salle having used the rain chant first, all I can say is that I’ve been watching the NCAA games as a young boy as early as the mid-70s and I have NEVER heard La Salle do the rain chant ending with “Animo La Salle”. The first time I’ve the green crod do the rain chant was actually in the UAAP already. That’s in the 80s, mind you.
And I say this with all honestly and without bias because I myself eventually studied in La Salle later in life….
ballbuster
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
bakit pa kasi pag aagawan ang word na animo? eh wala nmn talagang nakakaalam ng exact meaning at sinong team ang nauna.
bakit di na lang kayo gumawa ng sarili like:
Roar Bedans!; or Roar Lions!
Shoot Archers! or Bullseye Archer!
Mabuhay Rizal!
ballbuster
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
Peace!
bystander
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
@wharfl,eadi! You said: “The point is, Lasallians identify with “animoâ€? more strongly than do people from any other school…It’s the recognition and association that Lasallians and non-Lasallians alike (except maybe for a few from admu or sbc) make between “animoâ€? and La Salle through consistent and popular usage over 84 years.”
I will leave the rest of your post alone because I agree with them except for these statements which I qouted.
I understand and in fact agree with your observation on how La Sallians identify with the word animo, and how they feel strongly about the word. I am a La Sallian too.
However, I wish to caution you that if you have not actually been on both sides of the fence, you are not exactly in the best position to make a judgement call on how other people from other schools also feel about the word. So, your statement that “La Sallians feel more strongly…” may not be the case exactly.
Maybe because La Sallians are more visible? Given the fact that the school is at least twice bigger than San Beda in terms of population, for example. But size does not say anything about how strongly people feel about something. I am glad, however, that you do recognize and respect other people’s right to use the word “animo” as they might wish. That’s a good start!
Lastly, as to you comment about La Salle having consistently and popularly used the word “animo” in their cheers for “the last 84 years”, I would defer to alumni much older than I to honestly substantiate that statement.
I’ve already said my piece on that in my earlier post.
Animo-ter
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Thursday, 7 August 2008 at 1:27 am
ah watever.. ANIMO ATENEO!!!!! hehehe :)
kyle
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Friday, 15 August 2008 at 9:24 am
is there supposed to be a video. here can I see pls. thanks you pls reply to my website. and do you guys know what animo means in spanish?
Ride
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Friday, 19 September 2008 at 12:41 am
Does it really matter who uses the word ANIMO? If it is that much important sa yo, then why not patent the word! Yun lang yun … patent the word so you can officially claim the word for your school.
At the same time, why don’t you patent the words … Go, Fight, College, University and everything else you can think of. Ridiculous di ba?
My point is, cheers lang yan and it is too shallow to argue about. Hindi naman filipino word yan so I am sure we even copied it from another school rin outside the country.
For right now …
GOOD-LUCK TO ATENEO and LASALLE SA UAAP!!!!
ANIMO ATENEO at ANIMO LA SALLE!!!
Ride from San Beda
ANIMO SAN BEDA!!!
yaya
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 9:04 pm
watever major losers.
you dont need to argue whom to use the word animo because you dont have any exclusive copyrights for the word usage!
use it. don’t own it. dumbassesss….
azil
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 at 11:39 am
ok lng yan, bkt ung hopia, ANIMO RIZAL din….i guess any school/university has a right to end their chants with that controversial word. it is just for cheering and a fact that it is just for the spirit of the game. Bati bati lng po \/
mac
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 at 1:09 pm
redlion
True, nobody owns the word ‘animo’. Everybody has been using ever since, it’s just that it has been made popular by the schools who use it now, San Beda and La Salle, but with a BIG DIFFERENCE (not Caloy Loyzaga “Big Difference) on what they mean by the word animo.
San Beda has been using it ever since to mean ‘have courage’ in Spanish. Animo San Beda = Have Courage San Beda!
La Salle (and Ateneo) on the other hand has been using it ever since to mean ’spirit’ in Latin. Animo La Salle = Lasallian Spirit. As it has been repeatedly used/explained on their banners with the spirit by both la salle and ateneo
-your right,letran also according to the alumni(batch50) that i have talked with the during the grandalumni homecoming last november,
they also used Animo Letran in their cheers during those time because they honor Letran for what they called “The Spirit of Letran”, due because of its spanish and Latin heritage and because there are still spanish priests teaching in letran during that time.
as time past the Arriba battlecry still became much popular to every Letranites, and what remains to the once many animo cheers of letran were only the “Animo Yell” that what we are still hearing today from the Letran’s Cheers during the games.
ken
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 at 1:37 pm
so much 4 dat…ANIMO…ANIMO…ANIMO…
jst mind ur own meaning of dat word…
watever happens…ANIMO LA SALLE!!!
ciempwe…
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