On Language and Dialects

One of the most stupid thing that the Philippine education system should correct is the definition of language and dialect. It is seldom that you will meet someone who knows that Tagalog, Cebuano, Kapampangan, Ilonggo etc are languages and not dialects. A dialect is a slight variation of a language(British English, Australian English). Basically you can understand each other even if you speak different dialects of a language.

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In programming languages dialects also exists. PL/SQL and Transact-SQL are both dialects of SQL. They have minor differences but they are both SQL. Lisp also has its own dialects(Scheme, Common Lisp).

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Another thing that I find funny is the concept of purista(purist). There is no such thing as a pure Tagalog because a language evolves. Formal <insert language here> right now will not be the same formal <insert language here> in the next hundred years. I really find it funny that teachers tell their students that in Filipino a chair is upuan while in Tagalog it is salongpwet. The question is, does the word salongpwet really exists? Was it really used before and not a recent invention? My grandfather calls a chair upuan or silya. If something is just invented recently how can it be considered pure?

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Is Filipino and Tagalog the same?

Send someone who speaks Filipino(the language) back in time(maybe a hundred years when we are sure that Pilipino and Filipino does not exist yet) and let him speak with the Filipinos of that time.

QED

Happy Fathers Day!

Life does not come with a manual nor any simple instructions to guide you in life. But God packaged it with what they call a father.

I do not remember where I got this quote. Its not the exact quote but it comes close to it. In any case Happy Fathers Day!

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A geek once prayed
For God to answer how he would fare
In the elusive field of love

He wrote his variables
And threw it out into the air

e – is for the nature of love
i – is what we imagine love to be
π – is the constant for what love really is, irrational and transcendental

God relented and an equation he gave:

e^iπ + 1

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Just in case you do not understand the geeky reference:

e^iπ + 1 – Is Euler’s identity which evaluates to zero. It is considered to be mathematically beautiful.

e – Euler’s number, the base of natural logarithm

i – the imaginary unit of an imaginary number

π – is of course pi

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I was actually planning for my birthday post and almost finalized the concept. It was supposed to be an RPG thing. It has a title of “Level Up”, Jeff’s sketch of me and the text “At level 27, Azrael of the Flame has gained the following attributes..”. One of the attributes would be love life. I want a creative way and geeky way of saying that it is zero. Initially I was thinking of an equation of sine and cosine or some integral equation or something with infinity on it. Then I stumbled upon Euler’s identity and I think that it was cool. Then I suddenly have this idea on explaining what the individual elements of the identity(i – is how we imagine love to be etc.) means. I decided to scrap the whole birthday post thing later on since it was already late and I can’t think of anything more interesting.

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1) Nakakain na ako ng ice cream(Magnolia Non-stop) habang nakasabit sa jeep.
2) Nung high school lang ako nagsimba linggo-linggo. Magaling akong magpaliwanag ng Gospel pero di ako makaimbento ng homily.
3) Sa sobrang pangit ng sulat ko di ko na sya maintindihan pagkatapos ng ilang linggo. Nung highschool medyo ayos pa sulat ko kasi sinisikap kung ayusin. May grade kasi yung notes eh.
4) Sinubukan kong mag-aral ng piano at kumuha din ako ng voice at guitar lessons nung bata ako pero di ko talaga matutunan. Mga ilang session lang ayaw ko na. Hindi ko kinaya. Wala talaga akong talent.
5) Hindi ako binibigyan ng pera para manlibre ng nanay ko tuwing birthday ko dahil ibubulsa ko lang daw. Sobra daw akong kuripot.
6) Nung college ko ang una kong PE ay wrestling. Judo dapat yun pero iniba ng guro namin.
7) Naging officer ako ng CAT dahil may sinusundan ako. Kaso nag-quit din sya matapos ang ilang araw. Di naman ako makaalis kasi binoto akong officer-in-charge ng mga kapwa aplikante ko sa COCC(yan yung tawag bago maging CAT officer). Naging commander lang ako ng MP nung fourth year. Ganyan din nangyari kaya ako naging editor ng dyaryo namin. May sinundan din lang ako.

Tinatamad na akong mag-tag. Hehehe….