WOW, Taglish na ang Blogger
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...