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Man Bites Horse
Feb. 15th, 2012 11:55 amBeen grumbling a lot about the diarrhea sluice of likes and reblogs on Tumblr, but here I am doing the equivalent of a Tumblr reblog (h/t Dave). Been trying not to go more than three days without posting anything new on my livejournal, and this is fast and easy, while I wonder why I can't untrack myself and finally write about T-ara.
Of course, what may intrigue me most about this vid isn't the sexual and species politics but rather everybody jumping from language to language, from English to non-English — I assume to Tagalog, and maybe to some Spanish, too; I don't know. (Not to mention Horse.) Are the Philippines a fundamentally multilingual society? I don't merely mean "one with more than a single language" — I assume India's got everybody beat — but one where citizens generally shift from one language to another to a third as a matter of course, midconversation, midsentence. I'm envious, if this is the case.
Of course, what may intrigue me most about this vid isn't the sexual and species politics but rather everybody jumping from language to language, from English to non-English — I assume to Tagalog, and maybe to some Spanish, too; I don't know. (Not to mention Horse.) Are the Philippines a fundamentally multilingual society? I don't merely mean "one with more than a single language" — I assume India's got everybody beat — but one where citizens generally shift from one language to another to a third as a matter of course, midconversation, midsentence. I'm envious, if this is the case.
