7,000 Jobs in Dumaguete??!!

I see you are making progress

I read that you are starting to integrate yourself into the Filipino Culture.... It is now a good time to progress to the next steps... I would suggest you start by eyeballing some of the local walls around town... or maybe some of the local ladies for your next progressive integration step into the culture.

If I arm myself with broken Red Horse bottle, and act macho by marching on Mactan island, will you share some of the spoils with me, like any good leader? Even if I am defeated I could call for a universal dis-armament of their police department (everyone could put down their beer bottles, full or empty and broken) and maybe I would be given a few hectors of land or a free beer if I said everyone in the nation supported me that was a man, and needed some free land or beer too. You never know in this foolish world what will happen next.

 

This thread is useless and no value add and going from bad to crap. Rechel, I hope you kill this POS.

 

AGREED..................

 

Right. As if quoting from Wikipedia makes it any more correct than pulling a rabbit out of an *sshole. I suggest you take a time to study a semester introducing Philippine languages at some decent Philippine university then get back to me.

Filipino is not Tagalog, although it is Tagalog-based. Tagalog has it's own set of grammar and dictionary that is not applicable to Filipino. "Filipino" the way it is understood today is entirely different from anyone who has formally studied Tagalog. Filipino is an evolving language and you will find it's usage different, depending on which part of the Philippines you're at. It's an accessible, common language for many because it's taught in schools, second to their mother tongue.

If you don't want to spend that much time to study formally, try this long and interesting thread about the national language on a known Visayan forum.

Should there be further debates on the matter considering that the constitution already declared a national language? Yeah, sure. Talking is good but that isn't enough. They need to amend the constitution for that If they have the numbers, I'm sure it could be done. The Philippines has got bigger problems than this parochial war on languages. It's not on anybody's top ten list of things to do, except for a handful of people who got nothing to do better. Or those who wants to get brownie points for the election period.

What's the point of languages anyway? Isn't it for expressing yourself, communicating, getting your point across? Do we really need a "national language" for that? Like I wrote earlier, knowing English, Tagalog and Visayan (if anyone wants to be asinine, the spoken form is known formally as "Binisaya") should get you around the Philippines and interact with the locals.

This little discourse was interesting but it no longer contributes to the effing topic of this thread.

Maayong adlaw sa imoa.

 

I see the increase in jobs as a benefit to the community and a win for us all living here. I also see that people find ways to complain about anything.