A dire situation for the Philippine family in Qatar

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It's kinda funny, Lancer. You're acting like a commie in spite of yourself.

What? He now shoot people who try to climb over a wall to make it to freedom???


Lancer, I'll bet the number of people interested in that email would increase if it were translated into a different language...say, into Spanish, or French, or Finnish, or I dunno, maybe ENGLISH!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Lancer
I think you're mistaking commies with decent human beings again Che.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Che, just a joke.

Zkrib, yeah that would really help me too.

Basicly the one from Crispy tell the situation which you know, the names of the Phil girls, the number of other nationalies, the email address and phone #s of the agency in Qatar.

The one from Dolores to the embasy in Qatar has all that too, plus an appeal to help the girls.

Consider this Zkrib, it's perfect form for taking to the Phil community as you planned...

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Lancer
Ang mga pinoy naa didto si Mildred Manabogon, Jamilla Pangasate, Zandria Kasim, Virginia Sison, Elsie Eyo, Raida Bayao, Precy pero wala ko kahibalo sa apelyido, ug si damdamin apelyido ni niya wala ko kahibalo sa iyang pangalan. tapos naay duha ka sri lankan ug 3 indonesian.

Que lengua escriban aqui?

[Lancer]

Gazoontite

I'll have to wait for Dolores to translate that.

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
...or Finnish...

Don't encourage the evil, evil Finns.

[Straybow]

I was just asking what language it was. The Anglo borrow word "apelyido" is enough to clue me in to the meaning of it.

[Lancer]

Dolores is from the central Philippines, the Visayan (sp) region. The language is named after it. It's also known as Cebuano. (Cebu being the cap city of the region) Actually the Bohol Island varient of Cebuano known a Boholano. Visayan is perhaps the most usual name. However, the national language it Tagalog and I think this was written in Tagalog.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's Tagalog. Lots of English loan words, but even more Spanish ones. I'm impressed that I could still read some of it; I expected my Tagolog to evaporate the minute I left the Phils.

[Lancer]

I envy you, I can't seem to pick it up.

[Straybow]

Hmmm, yes, apelyido would be Spanish rather than English with the "-ido" suffix. My Spanish is more Spanglish anyway.

Bad American, Lancer! You really should try to make us look better.

[Zkribbler]

Lancer, here's the LINK to the list of Fil-American newspapers that I found.

I figure some of them will pose follow-up questions, which I won't be able to answer. So, I'm lateralling this to you & Dolores 'cause you guys have a better handle at what's going on.

[Barnabas]

I yanks had invaded the Phillipines 25 years later, then the islands would be spanish english bilingual nowadays, like Puerto Rico.

Now only around 3 million people speak spanish in the philippines (The presidenta speaks spanish)

[Zkribbler]

We didn't invade the Philippines! We invaded Cuba. We just sunk the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.

[Barnabas]

Tell that to the locals