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1. Sorry, I am not an authority on languages of the Philippines TAGS: Language. My Stuff. Philippines.
2. Better Than High Definition TAGS: Cool. Engineering. Hardware. Images. Movies. Photography. TECH. TV. Videos.

Really, I'm not. Here's a little exchange I had recently:

From: anna fontanar [meta]

Who are you? What planet are you from? Why are you translating Tagalog to English inaccurately when you don't even seem like you are an authority on the language. You are bastardizing my native tongue and I am very offended.

In your website, for example:

Anó ang pangalan ninyó?
    What is your child's name?

This is wrong. "Ano ang pangalan ninyo?" is translated as "What is your name?" The word "your" uses the plural form as a form of respect, even if one is speaking to only one person.

"What is your child's name?" when back-translated, this is "Ano ang pangalan ng anak mo?" or "Ano ang pangalan ng anak ninyo?"

anting-anting
    magical charms

"Anting-anting" is "amulet," refers to something with magical powers (it may be good or evil) -- not magical charms.

ay boo ay ya ka
    A bit of swearing involving a crocodile.

This spelling is grossly wrong. It should be spelled "buwaya ka!" Whether you mean for it to be a swearing phrase or not, it translates to "you are a crocodile!" -- not "involving a crocodile"

Please stop doing this translating inaccurately. At the very least, please remove those three phrases from your glossary. Or remove the entire glossary, for that matter.

Thanks.

You are right: I am not an authority on the language at all. I am sorry that I have offended you, but consider my pages on the language as clumsy words from a four year old.

My name is George Hernandez. I was born in Manila, but my parents were from the Sorsogon province of the Bikol region at the southern part of the island of Luzon. My parents came to the US in the 1970s. Unfortunately my parents let their children forget how to speak Tagalog or Bikol in order to help us assimilate. I have suffered a loss of much of the cultural heritage that should have been mine through blood.

When I visited the Philippines in 2004 (my first time in over 30 years), I had an incredible powerful experience on many levels. I am very glad I went, especially since my father died shortly afterwards. However, I was also saddened to find out that because of the language barrier, I felt like a foreigner --in the country of my own birth!

The page you reached, are just a few personal notes on the language for which I have a "feel" for, but no education in beyond that of a four year old. I have had additional problems because the Bikol dialect has significant differences from "Filipino" or Tagalog. My years of education in Spanish have also confused me when I see "bastardized" Spanish in Filipino. Also part of my adult education in the language comes via choppy emails and IMs. I hope you can forgive me for my clumsy attempts, but as an adult in the US, I have great difficulties and few opportunities to learn any proper variation of the Filipino languages. I will continue to take whatever meager notes I can in my explorations.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity to only explore the Filipino languages further. You obviously must have a love of the language. Also, thanks to your email, I will add a disclaimer to the page so that visitor will not be confused by the purpose of the page.

Once again, I apologize if I have offended  you.

Sincerely,

George Hernandez

I haven't been impressed by high definition (HD): It's just a bigger picture. However this upcoming high-dynamic range (HDR) is much more impressive. HD is like a picture but HDR will be like looking out a window!

Earlier this year, Dolby bought BrightSide Technologies, a startup based in British Columbia that developed a novel HDR display capable of four hundred times more contrast than a conventional monitor--closer to what the human eye can perceive. While a traditional liquid-crystal display is illuminated by a single white backlight, a BrightSide display is illuminated by an array of tiny white light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This means that individual LEDs can be turned off or on, increasing the darkness or brightness to various parts of the liquid-crystal display. Neither Dolby nor the other companies are providing specific timelines for a product, but Fleming has heard reports that displays could be available, for a few thousand dollars, within a year.

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