tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post7549499519624926850..comments2023-11-02T17:54:08.914+08:00Comments on The Prodigal Mole Cricket: Katimauan para king sariling Amanu!Jason Paul Laxamanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647261796957959034noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-44966566172720352212007-08-26T01:12:00.000+08:002007-08-26T01:12:00.000+08:00Noong bata pa ako, may katumbas ring kabayaran ang...Noong bata pa ako, may katumbas ring kabayaran ang mga mahuhuling nagsasalita ng wikang hindi napili ng aming academe. Sa kaso ko iyon ay ang Filipino. Bayad bayad ka kung hindi ka mag-Iingles.<BR/><BR/>Nagulat lang ako dahil nangyayari pala iyon sa lokal na lebel. Tagalog naman ang napili at sa kaso mo, Kapampangan naman ang hindi.<BR/><BR/>Nalalakungkot naman.tyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16524386801414526837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-27189180969886602652007-08-25T03:15:00.000+08:002007-08-25T03:15:00.000+08:00I admit that if it wasn't for the English translat...I admit that if it wasn't for the English translation of the entry, I wouldn't have understood a word here. But I really like this because it holds so much truth in what's happening in most schools. Why do you have be fined just for speaking your own language? Why do people put so much importance in one (well, in our case, two: English & Tagalog) language and say that it's the key to success of the country?<BR/><BR/>I remember one of your posts after you moved here from your own domain. You reposted an article from a Visayan, if I remember correctl (and after doing a quick search, yeah, yun nga). I showed it to some friends just because of one simple reason: it makes sense.<BR/><BR/>I'm guilty of speaking and understanding only two languages. Even during my one-year stay in Baguio where people have, as you say, linguistic diversity, I only got as far as saying the most basic words, and that's it! The notion that Filipinos are being a squatter in their own country is clearly manifested not only in poverty, but also in language.<BR/><BR/>Great work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-43151595160401702632007-08-23T17:09:00.000+08:002007-08-23T17:09:00.000+08:00filipinayzd: who said that Tagalog has the most po...filipinayzd: who said that Tagalog has the most potential? the Japanese government of Quezon. The Japanese know nothing about our individual cultural heritage; all they wanted was to oust English from our school system, so they rushed the puppet government into selecting one.<BR/><BR/>Are you trying to say that your dear Tagalog is automatically "holding more potential" than other languages?<BR/><BR/>This "we're supreme than any other ethnicity" thought of most Manila-based Tagalogs is what sucks. These are the myths they're trying to propagate to brainwash non-Tagalogs into being converted to their language - and it all boils down to power and economy. They monopolize literary power, imperialize RP in such a way that Tagalog has nationwide market, not to mention the taxes non-Tagalogs pay, percent of which goes to "national language development," which is Tagalog.<BR/><BR/>Tagalog was only 24% then of the Philippines. It's not even 50%+1 of the Philippine population, so to say it was destined to be the lingua franca is too simplistic.<BR/><BR/>I, a non-Tagalog, has no say in National Literature because anything I write will be branded as Regional Literature, as if I don't belong to this nation.<BR/><BR/>Then, when you start loving your own mother language, they'd brand you "regionalist," but when they love their own dear Tagalog, it's nationalistic.<BR/><BR/>Double standards.Jason Paul Laxamanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647261796957959034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-60912118565651047852007-08-23T16:59:00.000+08:002007-08-23T16:59:00.000+08:00Kahit na hindi ginawang national at isa sa mga off...Kahit na hindi ginawang national at isa sa mga official language ang Filipino na based sa Tagalog, Tagalog ang magiging lingua franca ng mga Filipino.<BR/><BR/>Parang sa isang pamilya. Pumili ang magulang sa napakaraming magkakapatid ng isang pag-aaralin. Pinili nila ang pinaka may potensyal. Paano naman yung iba?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-81295369415618873742007-08-23T13:07:00.000+08:002007-08-23T13:07:00.000+08:00Hey, nice entry! It's always good to read somethi...Hey, nice entry! It's always good to read something different so I voted for this. <BR/><BR/>I just replied to your comment on my Wika2007 entry. Anyway, I'll just spare you the hassle and repost it here.<BR/><BR/>Good luck to us!<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Jason: Thanks. Sorry ngayon lang ako napadaan dito.<BR/><BR/>As for the point you raised, I did mention something about that:<BR/><BR/>“Sociolinguist Michael Halliday wrote:<BR/><BR/>As long as we keep [the study of language] at bay we can go on believing what we want to believe about language, both our own and everybody else’s.<BR/><BR/>…More than any other human phenomenon, language reflects and reveals the inequalities enshrined in the social process.”<BR/><BR/>Precisely, the dynamics of language use is also a dynamics of politics.<BR/>That’s why there’s inequality, it’s inevitable. Those who use the prestige language has more power and those who have power can create a prestige language. But, I did not expound on that as well as you did in your comment (thanks for this :) ) because I focused on the theme.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, it was wrong for for me to write that standardized Tagalog is a source of unity. Maybe I should have used the term “point of unity” instead.<BR/><BR/>It’s not that we intentionally use a certain a language to impose dominance over others all the time. Many times, it’s just a matter of finding common ground.<BR/><BR/>Like our use of English in this comment section. You might be a native Kapampangan and I’m a bilingual English & Tagalog speaker but we chose to communicate in English to accommodate each other.FNFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06227742731517410565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2884125229458973846.post-72173555038314076652007-08-16T08:15:00.000+08:002007-08-16T08:15:00.000+08:00kasanting na! :)kasanting na! :)Arianne The Bookwormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06248671051077636313noreply@blogger.com