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Rachielle Sheffler's avatar

Wonderful post. The first time I read “Kawawa” without italics or apology, I was shocked. It was in Albert Samaha’s Concepcion. I love his brazenness.

I was not offended by your statement about Tagalog. My parents native language is Ilocano, and I’m just recently discovering how poetic it is.

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜's avatar

Thank you for your comment! It is a beautiful language and I enjoy listening to Ilocano music on Youtube! I am glad that it is getting a lot of support, as a language, in the USA!

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Damon Lord's avatar

Thank you for an interesting post. For my ongoing PhD in English and Creative Writing, I am writing a novel set in the UK (and will set some later chapters in Manila). I just wrote a chapter where some supporting characters, a Filipino-British family, do codeswitching and slip Tagalog words (ay naku, anak, ate, kapatid), without translation into English dialogue at their home, and just let them be picked up by the reader in context. I was worried that it wouldn't work, but my supervisor advised it did.

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜's avatar

I’m glad you liked it. Yeah, a lot of novelists are doing that now!

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸's avatar

Sana na lang mas mabuti yung Tagalog (or is it Filipino now?) ko. hindi ko alam kasi ang English word for syrup in kindergarten. na pa hiya ako

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜's avatar

That’s actually a hard one! Arnibal I think. Practice practice practice

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸's avatar

Right? I called it sabaw!

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Marikit 🇵🇭💜's avatar

Cute haha. Matamis na sabaw!

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸's avatar

Lol yup!

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