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Fluency in Regional Languages Can Improve the So-Called “Filipino Language”

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Fluency in Regional Languages Can Improve the So-Called “Filipino Language”

One thing I learned in language education is that, given time, geography and human development, a language would eventually change to suit the needs of communication. That is why I have ultimately very little problems with Tagalog speakers embellishing English into the former, creating a (current) form of portmanteau popularly known as “Taglish.” The premise…

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Why it is wrong to spend P100M on a celeb wedding in the #Philippines

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Why it is wrong to spend P100M on a celeb wedding in the #Philippines

Filipinos’ values are indeed perverted beyond recognition. In many Filipino movies, the bad guys are often pointy-nosed fair-skinned snobs (keeping to the narrow-minded way Philippine cinema’s jeje-culture traditionally portrays the rich) living in obnoxious tacky mansions while the “hero” is an other-side-of-da-riles lad or lass living the Pinoy challenge of scraping together a “decent” life….

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The #Philippines is a nation of starstruck ignoramuses

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The #Philippines is a nation of starstruck ignoramuses

[The following is an article by Star columnist Don Pedero published in The Philippine Star 29 October 2000 and also featured in Get Real Philippines on the same year.] * * * Last July 23, I wrote about Nasty (short for Anastacio), a balikbayan from Los Angeles, who, while vacationing in Manila, had nothing to…

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Huwag Ipawalang-Bahala ang Pagbabakuna!

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Huwag Ipawalang-Bahala ang Pagbabakuna!

(Author’s note: This article is a translation of a previous essay I wrote entitled “Anti-Vaxxers: A Dangerous Trend the Philippines Needs to Avoid.” I found it convenient to write this version so as to have a wider reach, and to have more people be aware of an emerging dangerous trend. As with the vaccines themselves,…

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Crash site of AirAsia Flight #QZ8501 located, no survivors expected to be found

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Crash site of AirAsia Flight #QZ8501 located, no survivors expected to be found

Possibly no survivors was the grim prognosis as more and more information trickled in following the pinpointing of the location of the crash site of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 which went missing last Sunday, the 28th December 2014. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported as of 8:38 p.m. that according to the most recent update from the Indonesian…

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Missing AirAsia QZ8501 plane possibly at sea bottom, US assistance sought as search continues

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Missing AirAsia QZ8501 plane possibly at sea bottom, US assistance sought as search continues

The search for AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 which went missing on Sunday, the 28th December continues. By Monday, officials involved in the search have become less optimistic and “saw little reason to believe the flight met anything but a grim fate.” The search which, until the end of Monday, was focused over seven zones has…

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AirAsia #QZ8501 disappearance highlights disturbing aspects of Southeast Asian air travel industry

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AirAsia #QZ8501 disappearance highlights disturbing aspects of Southeast Asian air travel industry

Less than 24 hours into the disappearance of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and, already, conspiracy theorists are at work reading into the minutiae of minimal information being released by official sources. That QZ8501 is the third Malaysian aircraft (after Malaysian Airlines MH370 vanished with 239 people in March and, another, MH17 carrying 298 people was shot…

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Civics, Economy, Lifestyle

AirAsia #QZ8501 en route from Surabaya to Singapore missing along with 155 passengers

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AirAsia #QZ8501 en route from Surabaya to Singapore missing along with 155 passengers

Air Asia Flight QZ8501 remains missing hours after it lost radio contact with Jakarta Air Traffic Control (ATC) Sunday, 28th December 2014. The aircraft, an Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers on board. According to reports, the plane lost contact with Jakarta ATC at 6:18 a.m. Surabaya time shortly after its pilots requested a deviation from…

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