On 8/31/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There's more English than Filipino on TV.
where? HBO of course! if you're talking about cable tv, i'm sure you're not
a fan of local shows that's why you say that.
Channel 23, ABS-CBN. The World Tonight. Your local talk show host
talks english more than 80% of the time.
Only WOwowee and Eat Bulaga use Filipino -- and that's not even the
true Filipino but a Taglish mish-mash of phrases.
> Illiterates understand Filipino? Yeah, right... Illiterates where?
would you like to meet some? i can bring some for you to meet personally.
Go to your neighborhood slums and say "Magandang Araw Sa Iyo, Wari Mo
Ba'y Maganda ang Wangis ng Aking Mukha?" and you'll get a blank stare
and maybe get someone laugh at you.
Have you checked what Filipino really is? It's not Tagalog. It's not
Batangas "Ala eh" tagalog, not even Cavite Tagalog. It's not even the
Tagalog you use at home.
So the next time you say "Illiterates understand Filipino" and
generalize from a sample that you yourself have encountered, think
again.
> And did you notice that the media giants have regional stations that
> broadcast the news in the local dialect?
it is during intermissions or commercial that they use the local dialects,
i've recently been to cebu just last week and watch tv during at the hotel
where there is no cable tv, they don't dub or even have a local dialect
subtitle in any of the programs.
Have you tried checking the local regional channels of ABS-CBN? I was
in Bicol, and the news were being delivered by a lady on the local
channel using their language there (which I cannot understand).
> And have you met *every* bisaya and talked to them in straight
> Filipino? Good luck with that.
of course i won't be able to meet all of them, hello?
Then you can't really say that the Bisaya can undestand Filipino, right?
i can talk to them in
straight filipino and they can fully understand what i told them,
Are these the educated ones, or are these also the illiterates that
you speak of? I've met one too many people from the Visayas region who
cannot understand Filipino, much less Tagalog. Since there is a
handful of them that can't, you can't say everyone does.
It's logic really. Since you haven't talked to every Bisaya in
straight Filipino and have them understand you perfectly, then I guess
your predicate doesn't hold does it?
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