Day 39: Baybayin for Everyone?
At his Baybayin calligraphy stall at a weekend crafts fair in Quezon City, Carding (A) argues with his nephew Kristoffer (B), a software developer, about a proposal to make Baybayin the national writing system.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Tagalog. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Bahagi ng ating kalinangan ang Baybayin, kaya dapat itong gawing pambansang panulat.
Baybayin is part of our culture, so it ought to be made the national script.
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B
E paano po ang mga keyboard, karatula at ID, Tito? Milyon-milyon po ang gagastusin.
But what about keyboards, signs and IDs, Tito? That would cost millions.
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A
Ang keyboard? Nasa cellphone mo na ang Baybayin, ikaw pa naman ang programmer.
Keyboards? Baybayin is already on your phone, and you're the programmer, of all people.
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B
Tama po. Pero ang mga dokumento ng gobyerno, isusulat po ulit lahat?
True. But all of the government's documents, written over again?
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A
Aaminin ko, hindi makatwirang palitan ang lahat. Sapat nang ituro ito sa paaralan.
I'll admit it isn't reasonable to replace everything. Teaching it in schools is enough.
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B
Payag po ako, basta ako ang gagawa ng app para rito.
I'm in, as long as I'm the one who builds the app for it.
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A
Iyan ang pagpapatuloy ng pamana: sa akin ang pinsel, sa iyo ang code.
That's how a heritage lives on: the brush is mine, the code is yours.
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