Sonny Villafania
3 July 2007

 

Mayor Reynaldo Vicente Velasco,

Magnayon ka! Komun ta nagamoran mon amin so pilalek mo ed baley tayon Sta. Barbara.

Under your Education plan or agenda, agyo pa lilingwanan ya yarum so program para ed kultura, salita and litiraturan Pangasinan. For what is a progressive municipality without a soul?

Patandagan yo pa itan so municipal library tayo ta kababaing.

Sonny Villafania
3 July 2007

Marifi, actually Pangasinan poetry was already included in Gawad Komisyon 2006. Dr. Marot Nelmida-Flores of UP asked Dr. Nolasco to include the Pangasinan language in their call for submissions. The winners of that contest were included in the anthology “Ani ng Wika 2006″ published by KWF.

Hopefully, we will have more entries this year. Spoken Pangasinan is alive, yes. It’s our literature that is dying. I doubt if that professor in UP Baguio College of Arts and Communication can list at least 5 titles in Pangasinan language published in the past 30 or 40 years.

Eduardo Pontaoe
3 July 2007

 

 

Mr. Al Mendoza:

What more adoration you can throw at Gov. Espino than your unabashed and uncontrolled enthusiasm? To start his administration with a fiasco, you don’t seem to know what this person in Espino looks like.

What you know was the sharing of drinks with him - which I can conclude - once you’re filled up with XO or a lowly Primero, you go blind not seeing anything. A journalist you are, who can be bought with a bottle of cheap liquor.

You don’t know Espino. Because if you did know him, you would not be so incongruous in your exultations about a man who is as mysterious as Superman.

Spines. . . yea. . . Spine-less kind of a governor. And hit this on your head. Military men are not good politicians that’s why government control is left to civilian authority.

Espino is also likened to Napoleon Bonaparte because of his short stature. People who claimed this comparison are so nonsensical who didn’t have even tidbit of Napoleonic history.

If so, then Espino, this governorship is his Waterloo. His career from a colonel - not a general - to congressman, to governor. . .

Napoleon’s Austerlitz and Wagram until Wellesley at Quatre Bras.

Eduardo Pontaoe
3 July 2007

 

 

Raffy ” Excuses” Baraan at Urduja? How did he pull a fast one?

If one of the most corrupted public servant under the The Benjie can squirmed his way in - like a worm - in a budding administration of Espino, is Din-Din Baniqued not far behind?

It’s beyond comprehension . . . beyond logic . . . how Espino would hire a termite . . . a rat . . . a dirty rotten fox who can do damage to his reputation as governor.

These tandem of Baraan and Baniqued cashed The Benjie in, the mishmash of surreptitiousness that makes Marcos look like a kid. How can Gov. Espino be an ignoramus?

With the glory, the homage being thrown at him, it is becoming that Espino is just a banter. . . a pun. . . an insignificant little big man.

I will try to put in Pangasinan how Urduja would look like with Baraan, “ALOOBAN NA TILAY SO BALOYBOY”, “AKALAB NA TABONEY SO ABONG”.

Jess Delfin
3 July 2007

 

 

I agree with Ms. Jara that a loss of a language or dialect could mean closure of an entire culture. I can’t understand why there is such a loss of pride in speaking the local dialects, Ilocano and Pangasinan.

Like Ms. Jara, I find it an advantage to be able to speak both. It was a surprise for me to find that most people I spoke to while I was in Pangasinan now respond in Tagalog even when spoken to in Ilocano or Pangasinan. I have to keep reminding them that I am not a Tagalog.

Where is the pride in being a Pangasinense or Ilocano had gone? I agree that everyone should have freedom to speak whatever dialect or language they happen to prefer. What I question is the lack of pride of these peoples’ own culture and dialect.

Giving up on their local dialect is giving up on their identities that the Ilocano or Pangasinense is known for. If this trend continues, the Ilocano and Pangasinan dialects will cease to exist.