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MyAvatars 0.2 Misterhubs
August 17th, 2007 @12:07 pm  

This is remotely related to your carabao anecdote. My lawschool prof told us about an incident when he was in Europe. An American couple approached him and asked for directions and of course he answered in fluent English. The couple told him, “Wow, you speak very good English. How did you learn to speak English like that?” My prof said: “I learned it during my flight from Manila to Europe” and left. Hehe.

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MyAvatars 0.2 AJ
August 17th, 2007 @1:28 pm  

@Misterhubs

hahahaha! That is indeed funny! A lot of call center have that kind of experience too. We just tell them that we got the accent and the English through MTV (which is weird coz growing up, the MTV that I watched was MTV Asia which didnt use a lot of English back then)

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MyAvatars 0.2 empress maruja
August 17th, 2007 @9:42 pm  

Naalala ko tuloy ‘yung professor namin sa Filipino noong college. Sabi niya, ang tanging paraan para mapalawig ang wikang pambansa ay manghiram ng mga termino mula sa iba pang major na wika ng Pilipinas gaya ng Bisaya. Dahil kung tutuusin, hindi perpektong wika ang Tagalog.

Halimbawa, walang salita sa Tagalog para sa “husband”, pero sa Cebuano mayroong “bana”.

Good luck, Mare! ^_^

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MyAvatars 0.2 AJ
August 17th, 2007 @10:27 pm  

@empress maruja

true true true! good luck din sayo!

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MyAvatars 0.2 Ryan
August 18th, 2007 @6:00 am  

Nice blog.

I actually had to read the English translation of your post because though I still speak Tagalog, it takes me a while to read Tagalog. I’m Tagalog (dad’s side) and Waray (mom’s side). I can speak Tagalog but can only understand Waray (though I’m doing my best to learn it).

I’ve been so out of touch of the happenings in the Philippines ever since I came to the US, but I do my best to keep up, especially with the current state of the governance.

I really like your last paragraph. No matter how spread out Filipinos are or in which countries Filipinos reside, Filipinos will always find a connection knowing that another person is Filipino.

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MyAvatars 0.2 daniel
August 18th, 2007 @10:59 am  

Nakakatuwa naman ang blog mo Katoto. Malalim ang iyong pananaw at kuru-kuro hinggil sa ating wika.

Sumasanga-ayon din ako ka Maruja na ang pinaka-mainam na pamamaraan upang mapalawig at mapagyaman ang ating wikang pinoy ay ang paghalaw ng mga nararapat na terminolohiya mula sa samu’t-saring diyalekto’t wika ng ating arkipelagao. Ito rin, sa palagay ng nakararami, ang pinakamahusay na pamamaraan upang mapag-ugnay natin nang husto at mawala ang mga barikadang naghihiwalay sa bawat rehiyon, kultura’t sektor na bumubuo ng ating bayan mula Aparri hanggang Jolo.

Ipagbunyi ka Katoto at ipagpatuloy natin nawa ang malayang pagpapalaganap ng mga kuru-kurong makakapag-unlad ng malayang kaisipan.

:-)

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MyAvatars 0.2 reyna elena
August 19th, 2007 @3:09 am  

I could feel his pain. I come from Bicol. Magsasaka ang gurl nong panahon. Nakapayong lang nga ako habang nag-aararo… or was it me na ina-aararo? I don’t know. I don’t remember now.

But you see, I don’t believe in imperialistic Manila. True, Manila is powerful. What they do in Manila reverberates across the countryside. Parang Los Angeles - what they do there, gaya-gaya ever ang Amerika. Is it imperialism nang mga tiga LA? I don’t think so.

What it is is that - this is the dark results of economic improvement and the sad reality is that, as economic development goes up, so is economic inequality. I can send the latest ADB studies on this one. And yes, there are those who are always left behind.

Now trust me on this, I just don’t blame economic dev in this case because corruption, good governance, crappy politics are as guilty as ever which is why we have inequalities.

So, what’s happening is that - to all of those who were left behind either by choice, of by some corrupt politicians, everyone sets their sights on Manila and blames Manila for being imperialistic. I DISAGREE.

I maybe be in the US now, but I’m still very much a resident of Pasig City, and we in Manila are as much as a victim as those people in Mindanao by the powers that be.

It’s a really nice and excellent essay, in fairness.

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MyAvatars 0.2 Lionheart
August 19th, 2007 @4:02 pm  

Congrats Kuya AJ…

Hehe :) Andami nang sumali… :)

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MyAvatars 0.2 Shari
August 23rd, 2007 @12:09 am  

Ang galing, ang galing. May “sense of regionalism” talaga ang mga tao, lalo na ang mga nasa Imperial Manila at sa ibang mas “angat” na lugar sa Pilipinas.

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