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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (37254)	9/5/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: melinda abplanalp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Tagalog...that's it.

To: Michael Sphar who wrote (37254)	9/5/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Your ex would have been from northwest Panay, which is mostly Kinaray-a, with the ubiquitous Ilongo moving in. Both are Visayan dialects: if you ask someone from Samar (Waray) and someone from Antique (mostly Kinaray-a) what language they speak, both are likely to say Visayan, though they can't talk to each other. A little confusing. "Palangga 'ta gid ikaw" would come out roughly as "you are my absolute sweetheart". The Tagalog situation is weird. They wanted to have a national language, and appointed a commission of linguists to develop one. Since all of them were Tagalogs - Tagalog is spoken around Manila, and while the Tagalogs are not the most numerous ethnic group, they have always been dominant, and resented - they based the national language on Tagalog. The others didn't much care for this, and even now in Cebu many people refuse to use Tagalog. Local TV and movies all use Tagalog, though, and it really has caught on, the TV having done a more effective job od spreading it than the schools ever did. Not that anybody cares much.... <edit> I don't think I've ever seen so much spellcheck red on a post....