I'm copy pasting from Joe Padre's blog on the new Filipino spelling -- my only gripe is with General Rule V -- the use of letters F, J, V, and Z for borrowed words -- we freely exchange them with P, Dy, B and S -- "Siryusli -- yu dyast kant du dat -- piling biktoryus end weyb it in prant op mai peys."
Here are sample new spellings:
Sounds like the planners stopped at a beauty parlor on their way to presenting the draft in Congress.
Their main contention is that "you can plan language." Wrong. Lasting language use comes from the bottom-up -- what people see as ok, is valuable, will allow them to lift up their current stations in life -- that's what they are gonna use (and the spellings that go with it). I'm going to update an old article and post it here...
Here are sample new spellings:
fiesta - fyesta
affix - afiks
brief - brif
photo - foto
cough - kaf
gem - jem
jacket - jaket
soldier - soljer
Vacation - vekayshun
Value - valyu
zone - zon
cruz - kruz
zoo - zo
xylophone - zaylofon
czar - zar
scissors - sizors
Sounds like the planners stopped at a beauty parlor on their way to presenting the draft in Congress.
Their main contention is that "you can plan language." Wrong. Lasting language use comes from the bottom-up -- what people see as ok, is valuable, will allow them to lift up their current stations in life -- that's what they are gonna use (and the spellings that go with it). I'm going to update an old article and post it here...
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What is this rhetoric for? One might question. When all the things you fought against had been hastily approved already (without popular support) now mandated by the CHED to all schools around the country. All done impulsively to the glory of the paper-pushing CFL (Commission on Filipino Language) boys. So again what is this for? It's like throwing a stone against a heavily guarded fortress. A linguistic juggernaut!
Unless, however, by taking every stone together and make a bigger boulder one can barely encroach and make history.Ha,ha. Highly unlikely. But it can possibly happen. Not now. Maybe the in the years to come after one can realize its gross effect. When one can't stomach for insensitivity as well as the bad implication it could inflict on us.
They shouldn't have sodomized our language. Such acts could have amounted to striking a lightning for that brazen sacrilege.
OK. I'll just leave you at that while I grit my teeth in utter disgust.