Do You Spokening English?

**mrpink** · May 30th, 2005 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by kiper

Hindi pa ko nag-english dun pag nag oorder.

haha .. ganyan din ako .. i-inglesin ko muna mga kasama ko .. "what are you getting?" .. tapos pag-harap ko sa barista .. "isang kopi op da day" ..

**MJs** · May 30th, 2005 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Yoda

Naiinis ako sa mga magulang na kumakausap sa mga anak nila ng baluktot na Ingles. Syempre, baluktot din ang kakalabasan nung mga anak. Not to brag or anything, but I wasn't raised like that, and here I am speaking/writing better English than most of my peers!

SMS-speak, in my opinion, is poison. I receive lots of messages where I have to reply back just to clarify what the sender actually meant. Ironic, considering that SMS shortcuts were supposed to save us a few bucks. I'm not totally ignorant of the shortcuts either, some people are just overdoing it. Nasasanay tuloy.

Sadly, it's true. English literacy in the Philippines is going down. One thing I can say though, the solution is not to make kausap to our kids in Engleesh.

hayaan mo na lang. anak naman nila yung ini-ingles nila. wala ka ng pakialam dun. hayaan mo na lang yung anak ang mag-correct sa magulang nila.

yung sa sms, hayaan mo na rin dahil wala ka na rin magagawa para matuwid pa ang shortcuts. tanggapin mo na lang as it is. kung di mo matanggap, wag ka mag-reply.

peace.

**chua_riwap** · May 30th, 2005 09:47 PM

Ooooops! Easy lang MJs....easy...

**cokyi** · May 30th, 2005 10:39 PM

hmm.. kung hahayaan na lang natin lahat... edi sana wala na lang thread.

**cokyi** · May 30th, 2005 10:43 PM

di ba? hayaan na lang natin lahat ng mga mali mali nila... wala naman tayo lahat pakealam dun... so sarado na lang pala to dapat at hindi na sana sinimulan... wala na lang sanang forums ang tsikot.com, kasi kaya nga nagkaron ng ganito para pag-usapan ang mga bagay bagay...

**KALAMPAG** · May 31st, 2005 12:14 AM

Boyfriend to Girlfriend, may LQ: What do you take me for?! Granted?

Guard, answering the telephone: Hello?... Ah yes,for a while. Please hang yourself.

Starlet in an interview: If the odds are against me, then I will against them.

Inday Badiday asks a starlet about her mother's burial:
Inday: Kumusta ang libing ng nanay mo?
Starlet: Successful naman po.

Army officer to cadet:
"Do you know why I ask you to stand?"
"No, sir."
"Ok, why?" (anlabo!)

Teacher to students: Baka gusto nyong ibilad ko kayo sa covered courts.

Teacher: Class, I want you to watch *** scenes.
Class: What?! Teacher!
Teacher: What's wrong? It's a beautiful film starring Bros Welles! (Bruce Willis)
Class: Aah, Sixth Sense!

Sa isang examination:
Student: Mam, pwedeng gumamit ng liquid paper?
Teacher: Ang kulit naman! Sinabi nang pad paper lang eh.

After the examination:
Teacher: Okey, time is up. One, two, three. Come your papers to me!

A reporter interviews a politician about the Philippine economy.
Politician says: Talagang mahirap ang buhay natin ngayon. Pero slow by slow, we will success.

Teacher: Sorry, class. I'm late. My mother died three years ago. And now she's dead. (Ano daw?!)

Teacher: What is ur name?
Student: Dell.
Teacher: What is ur old? (maybe she meant how old are you?)

In a restaurant:
Waiter: Sir, How do you want your egg?
Customer: Side in, side out.

Mom interviews her daughter's suitor:
Mom: What's your course?
Suitor: Geo po (for geology).
Mom: Ahhh... Geo-rnalism. Ok yan. (ok nga!)

Guy to Girl: I love you. This is not a ball. ("Hindi ito bola" in English)

Teacher to students: Okay, form two straight circles and find your height alphabetically!

Teacher to students: Okay class, it's time to go home. Form a line and pass out slowly.

Angry teacher to student: I want you to bring your father and your mother, especially your parents,
understood?! Bring them tomorrow in front of me, right here, right now!

Emcee, in a party: The next song is the favorite song of my best friend, and neither do I!

Posted in an establishment: None ID, nothing entry.

Teacher: Oy, magdala kayo ng chip ahoy a.
Student: Miss may "s" yon...
Teacher: A, sorry. Chip ahoys!

Two lousy-in-english friends talking to each other:
Friend 1: Am I raining outside?
Friend 2: Not yet. Sprinkle only.

In an awards night, presentor goes: And the winner for Best Comedy Show is Okay Ka, Pare Ko! of IBS
channel 13. (Ever heard of that?)

Alma Moreno, in her show introduces Nora Aunor who comes in late:
Finally, please welcome, the late Nora Aunor.

Heard in a fastfood chain:
Yaya: Ma'm, gusto po ni Mark ng KIDNEY MEAL!

**chua_riwap** · May 31st, 2005 12:50 AM

Dati, meron akong matandang Supervisor (mahilig mag "carabao" English) dati sa trabaho sa Makati, na mahilig magpa-punch in ng time card (uso noon yun), pag medyo late na siya sa pagpasok.

Eto ang banat niya: "When you come in the morning, punch me!"

**oldblue** · May 31st, 2005 02:13 AM

eto naman kwento ng kaibigan tungkol sa classmate nya na nasiraan sa may Taft. Ave:

"I called the wrecker to wreck my car."

**Yoda** · May 31st, 2005 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by MJs

hayaan mo na lang. anak naman nila yung ini-ingles nila. wala ka ng pakialam dun. hayaan mo na lang yung anak ang mag-correct sa magulang nila.

yung sa sms, hayaan mo na rin dahil wala ka na rin magagawa para matuwid pa ang shortcuts. tanggapin mo na lang as it is. kung di mo matanggap, wag ka mag-reply.

peace.

Can you appreciate what we're doing here? We're having a discussion, an exchange of opinions, plain and simple. Pa'no naman pumasok ang paki-alaman sa usapan?

**Renelmac** · May 31st, 2005 03:13 AM

what i've discovered is that there majority of bilinguals here in the philippines specifically yung english and tagalog speakers, speak and know better english than tagalog. sad but somewhat true, in college ang daming mga taga-province na ang gagaling mag-english pero bumabagsak sa filipino subject kasi wala talaga silang exposure to tagalog. to add to this is the growing numbers of english-only families, pure pinoys but don't speak the language, be it any of the dialects either. para tayong tumatandang paurong..sad but true IMHO