The misplaced language debate

By Antonio Contreras

Jul 23, 2022 12:09 am

WE are the only country that would happily communicate in a lingua franca that is actually derived from Tagalog, and then have problems with it being the template for an evolving national language. We are people who watch the evening news, the soap operas, even those dubbed from Korea and Thailand, and the Latino soaps before them, all in Tagalog.

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