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Use and Misuse / Re: For good or ill, the Filipino word “hulidap” enters global lexicon

« on: October 31, 2010, 09:56:52 PM »

This section, I should say, is fabulous! I'd love to see more and more Philippine-originated "englishcisms" used more widely all over the world - it will help strongly in making people become more aware that English is actually an official language in the Philippines. And that Philippine English is as excellent as those who consider themselves "native English" speakers, and so we won't need to always "defend" our language abilities to foreigners. What can we do? We're basically born "polyglot" because of our heritage, the geographic location of the country, our education system, the political system in place, among other things...:-D

Cheers!
Jerome