Filipina English: You're It!!!

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Filipina English

I love Language.
I love English.
I am Filipina.
I teach as creatively as possible.
I write to let the world know.
I'm a Filipina, but English is my first language.

Why Filipina English?

English is the world's language, and Asian nations are clamoring to learn it for trade, commerce, and international success.
But is the use of English a threat to our being Filipino? I believe otherwise.

We Filipinos and Filipinas have been trained to use English, and because of our way with language, we have even made our own variety...Filipino English. We use it on a daily basis, and yet, not all the English we know of is correct.

This blog is the result of what I believe is our collective struggle to know both English and Filipino, and the desire to achieve a brand of English that is understood worldwide and yet...distinctly Filipino.

You're It!!!

Stamped: 6:41 PM

On my way to school for a grammar class, and yes, having donned my "grammar police" mode, I spot this rather witty, but inadvertently funny pin prominently displayed in front of the tricycle I was riding on.

If you can't, CAN'T spot what's wrong, then SHAME ON YOU!

Errr...that was a rather nice saying they put on the pin there:

"Stupidity is not a crime; your free to go."

But, ehh...if YOUR grammar teachers were not able to make you differentiate between the possessive pronoun YOUR, and the contracted YOU'RE (you + are), then, well, YOU'RE not free to go.

Come and join my grammar class and I'll give you YOUR lesson for the day.

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Brian Barker says so:
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The phrase "everyone speaks English" is indeed an urban legend.

Yet people also claim "no-one speaks Esperanto" which is also untrue.

If you have a moment have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LPVcsL2k0 or http://eurotalk.com/en/store/learn/esperanto

Dr Kvasnak teaches English at Florida Atlantic University. top