"Turasok" is a word in HILIGAYNON
turások - To take a short cut through
fields, over grass, etc.; to pass, go over or
enter without ceremony, interview, call to
account, tax with, burst upon, "go for”.
Ginturások lang námon ang talámnan,
tunúk (dúgi), etc. We simply cut across the
field, tramped over the thorny shrubs, etc.
Indì mo pagturasókon ang pagsulúd sa
ákon kwárto, kóndì manóktok ka gid
ánay. Don’t enter my room
unceremoniously, but knock first. Sang
pagkabatî níya siní dáyon gid lang íya
ginturások si Fuláno. As soon as he heard
this, he at once "went for” (had an
interview with, expostulated or
remonstrated with) N.N. (cf. túrag, tásak,
ládag, láktud, kurágmang).
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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