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Another attempt at Nanowrimo . Well try and try until I succeed and accomplish a draft. Yes just a draft. Once again I am adorning this blog with the Nanowrimo emblem or logo, for the sheer fun of being part of it. And below is a funny and very enticing email from the indefatigable Chris Baty. To think that he is been doing this for the last 10 years, he deserve a prize for this. So this year I will try an erotic fiction and I will be writing in Taglish - that's Tagalog and English, maybe Ilocano too, let' see... Well, nurturing the spirit of my writerly aspirations... whatever that is! Here goes his email: Dear National Novel Writing Month Author , Hi there! NaNoWriMo Program Director Chris Baty here. Before we get rolling, I wanted to give you a quick guide to our upcoming five weeks of literary domination. Here's the plan: Today: Make a tax-deductible donation to help us pay for National Novel Writing Month. So far, we've received donations from 3.4% of our particip...

Hahahaha (malutong, crispy(?), hehehe) that was my reaction ! I tried switching the language from English to Taglish (not Filipino technically). There are some funny and unusual words that are being used or to say an appropriation of Filipino. inu-upload - ini-uupload/ina-upload ( this is hard ) preview - silip ( tanaw/patingin? ) (labels) etiketa - I easily associated with ethics - bansag/pamagat could be an alternative i-publish - could be ilathala /ilimbag Especially that language (a national language) remains a very sensitive issue in the Philippines. Is it language or dialect? A question that linguists and social scientists are coming up with a consensus. I do subscribe that Filipinos are for real multi-lingual, not speaking different dialects. A writer asked whether Ilocano (or the other so called dialects) is dialect of which language, definitely not Filipino or Tagalog since an Ilocano won't understand or be able to talk to a Tagalog speaker. Definitely my paternal...