By Romy Cayabyab In earlier posts, we commented on poetry editing and punctuation, and grammar, spelling and poetry. In this post, I like to comment on the use of apostrophes. When writing in the English language, we use apostrophes to: – indicate possession (man’s car) – indicate plural of lowercase letter and help avoid ambiguity [...]
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Ang wastong gamit ng ‘ng’ at ‘nang’
A blog on the correct use of ‘ng’ and ‘nang’ is something I have been planning to do for sometime. But other things got on the way which relegated this idea on the background. Given the increasing popularity of Tagalog / Filipino not only in the blogosphere but even in real community life, I think [...]
A national language lesson from Puerto Rico
Speaking of dignity, self-respect, the instinct of national preservation through the defense of one’s own national language and national sovereignty, we need to point out as an example the recent rejection of U.S. Statehood with all its publicized “dollar benefits” on the part of the majority of Puerto Ricans in a recent national plebiscite they [...]
In Defense of Chabacano
One of the objectives of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language is to encourage the use of Spanish in the Philippines. The fact is that Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines, and we, the Filipino Hispanists, are looking for ways of making Spanish accessible, so to speak, for the Filipinos. One way [...]
The vibrancy of Filipino as a language
What is Internet in Tagalog? We mentioned to all emanila.com members and users that our online translation service is not in Tagalog but in Filipino (Pilipino). It has now become obvious from Mr Renato Perdon’s “The Making of a National Language” why it is so. While Tagalog is the basis of the development of Pilipino [...]
