Bisaya Daku !
When I was back home last year (July 2010), I was quite amazed at how some Bisaya will speak Tagalog after working in Manila for even a couple of months. One of our house helpers has a sister who worked in Manila for 6 months (she is 27) and we hired her to help in the kitchen. So ning balik siya sa Bohol to work for us. But what I really found annoying was that in my house she was talking to me in Tagalog.
I said to her, "Ngano mag tagalog man ka ? Tagalog diay ka? Ka ingon ko taga Inabanga ka?". After that , I she started talking again in Bol-anon.
My point is: be proud of your land of birth and your native dialect. When i was back in Philippines (Bohol-Cebu-Leyte), I did not speak in American English , but tried to speak in Bisaya all throughout. Ngano mag english - english man when kahibalo man diay mag sinulti og binisaya diba? Pariho ra pod og ngano mang tagalogtagalog when kahibalo man diay mag binisaya.
Bisaya is not an inferior language to Tagalog. We are made to think so just because Tagalog is the language of the "capital city". Bisayas constitute the bulk of the members of the armed forces, bisayans constitute a bulk of medical doctors, bisayans are productive and hard working, educated and family oriented.
When I am introduced to Filipinos at the hospital, they always ask what part of the Philippines I am from, and I am proud to say, "I am from BOHOL." And I am not ashamed to tell them when they start speaking in Tagalog, "Oh, I'm sorry, I only speak Bisaya." Mo ingon ang mga tagalog nurses nako, "Ohhhh, Dr. Lucino, sobrang snob snob ka dyan, baket hindi ka alam sa Tagalog? National language yan sa pilipinas."
Mo ingon pod ko nila, "Pasensya, hindi ako marunong sa tagalog, basta konti lang. Pero ug kahibalo gayod ko mag sinulti sa Binisayang Sugbuanon maka discuss ta. Pwede ba mag binisaya ra lang ta? "
Hehehe!
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