{"id":4468,"date":"2016-07-02T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2016-07-02T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T19:31:46","slug":"do-you-speak-english-or-taglish-by-nostradino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4468","title":{"rendered":"Do you speak English or Taglish? by Nostradino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, English is\u00a0probably the most widely-spoken second language in most countries. Most authors and columnists write using the English language. At least three Philippine newspapers in Australia publish in English. Many radio announcers broadcast in English. International air traffic controllers communicate with pilots in English.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>But versions vary widely. Look at how Filipinos in Australia use it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s make <em>tusok<\/em> the fishballs.&#8221; This is language where there\u2019s more English than Tagalog words. &#8220;You make <em>kuwento<\/em> to me what happened,&#8221;\u00a0 says\u00a0your friend. Then, there&#8217;s the superlative :\u00a0&#8220;He&#8217;s so <em>galing.<\/em>&#8221; Or commonly heard during summer: &#8220;I&#8217;m so<em> <\/em><em>init na<\/em>; make <em>paypay<\/em> me <em>naman.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I once heard a college student from Assumption Convent in Makati City exclaim: &#8220;How <em>puta naman<\/em> your mom is.&#8221; A widow who lives in Woodcroft once said to me: &#8220;<em>Paki kuwan naman yung ano<\/em>.&#8221; (Whaaaat!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, English is\u00a0probably the most widely-spoken second language in most countries. Most authors and columnists write using the English language. At least three Philippine newspapers in Australia publish in English. Many radio announcers broadcast in English. International air traffic controllers communicate with pilots in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,37,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}