Category: language
james soriano, wikang pambansa 101
tugon ito kay james soriano, who provoked with Language, learning, identity, privilege, and then responded to the brickbats in Wika bilang gunita. a 4th year college student of ateneo, soriano has in essence come to realize the value of filipino/tagalog… … Continue reading
rizal, tagalog, nation
it’s really too bad that we haven’t tried hard enough as a people to develop tagalog into a national language. then maybe we would have a better sense of national interests as opposed to foreign interests, and we could be making … Continue reading
Tagalog, language, deconstructed
Who would have thought that Tagalog could be de-constructed and that a mathematical order found in our use of verb phrases? Who would have thought that there would be a discrete number of key verbs expressing, covering, every human experience, … Continue reading
rocking with da reyna
quite interesting how manolo’s mistake spun off debates on academic credentials & credibility in the comment threads of filipino voices.com and reynaelena.com, and quite quite yummy how fv blogger benignO’s entry that manolo’s apology empowers “dimwits” added fuel to da … Continue reading
manolo’s mistake
All the crap bout that [HK] columnist comes from pinoys who wouldn’t know satire sarcasm or irony if it slapped them on the face. this certainly doesn’t sound like mlq3 of the blog daily dose where he is usually quite … Continue reading
strike two
oh my, the “sassy” one strikes again. how boring. pwedeng di na lang patulan pero on second thought, why not, lalo na’t baka isipin niyang tama siya porke walang response. having trained in psychology, i cannot but read “tyranny of … Continue reading
sassy: aiming high, hitting low
imagine. complaining about the tagalog of amado v. hernandez in mga ibong mandaragit [now required high school reading, thank goodness, being a sequel to rizal's fili]. that’s sassy? that’s stupid. and lazy. and, really, anti-filipino, i.e., anti everything that filipino … Continue reading
Our language predicament
Philippine Daily Inquirer 15 August 1998 I HAVE a feeling that Education Secretary Andrew Gonzales was pulling his punches when he conveyed to media his concern that some 20 percent of the high school population of 5 million is deficient … Continue reading