Re: One language for the world

> >
> >The
> >only exception is Cebu City.  They are particularly
> >resentful about Tagalog being the basis for
> Pilipino.
> >Even when I flub on my Cebuano, they would still
> >continue talking to me in Cebuano.  They feel they
> >don't have to "go down" to the level of speaking
> >Tagalog, unless the person doesn't understand
> Cebuano
> >at all.
>
> Hmm, I'm wondering what the situation is where my
> grandfather grew up, as
> well as the city my grandmother grew up in. But, i'm
> not surprised
> Cebuanos dislike speaking Pilipino since cebuano was
> one of the contenders
> for the basis of Pilipino.
Well, actually, it's only the Cebuanos who are in Cebu
City who dislike speaking Pilipino. The Cebuanos
outside Cebu City and Cebuanos in Mindanao would love
to speak Pilipino in every possible occasion.
Whenever I go to my father's hometown in Mindanao, I
would talk in Cebuano, but people there would answer
back to me in Pilipino since they believe it's more
"cultured and sophisticated" to speak in Pilipino.
And also they wanted to practice their Tagalog on me.




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