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aja675
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17 Oct 2016, 8:51 am

cavernio wrote:
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Oops, sorry for my idiosyncratic writing style in the opening post. All I meant is that I'm not as intellectual as I used to be and that I care too much about shallow things.


Says someone who doesn't bat an eye at using the word 'idiosyncratic' in natural conveyance. :-p

Maybe I'm not stupid, but it's just that I live in a country where people think of having a big English vocabulary as a bad thing, and so, that quality of mine is considered a useless one by some people. http://makingitfuninthephilippines.blog ... re-in.html



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17 Oct 2016, 9:02 am

I'm curious: How do Filipinos regard the Spanish language?



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17 Oct 2016, 10:09 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I'm curious: How do Filipinos regard the Spanish language?

It's apparently posh. However, few people speak it these days. BTW, I'm part-Spanish myself and I have relatives who speak it, but they're not immediate ones.



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17 Oct 2016, 10:17 am

I'm guessing that people in the Philippines have an ambivalent relationship to both the US and the English language.



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17 Oct 2016, 9:37 pm

aja675 wrote:
cavernio wrote:
aja675 wrote:
Oops, sorry for my idiosyncratic writing style in the opening post. All I meant is that I'm not as intellectual as I used to be and that I care too much about shallow things.


Says someone who doesn't bat an eye at using the word 'idiosyncratic' in natural conveyance. :-p

Maybe I'm not stupid, but it's just that I live in a country where people think of having a big English vocabulary as a bad thing, and so, that quality of mine is considered a useless one by some people. http://makingitfuninthephilippines.blog ... re-in.html

Some people think of having a large English vocabulary as a good thing, but it's just that so many Filipinos have crab mentality, or an "If I can't have it, nobody can" mentality when it comes to others' enviable qualities.



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17 Oct 2016, 9:39 pm

I see what you're saying.



aja675
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22 Oct 2016, 6:36 am

aja675 wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
I'm curious: How do Filipinos regard the Spanish language?

It's apparently posh. However, few people speak it these days. BTW, I'm part-Spanish myself and I have relatives who speak it, but they're not immediate ones.

Correction: some of them are immediate.