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NOT SEXIST, NOT MYSOGINIST, and definitely NOT A MOTHER HATER.- An Attempt at MorphoSyntactics to Derive Meaning
Never thought I had to do this, but if I didn’t, nobody else probably would. Here I present a very rudimentary morphosyntactic analysis of Duterte’s swearing behaviors, and give the obvious (to me) conclusion that he is NOT SEXIST, NOT MYSOGINIST, and definitely NOT A MOTHER HATER. Since linguistics is a rapidly progressing science, the terminology I employ might be unpopular or worse, outdated. Although currently the nominative-accusative vs. ergative-absolutist axes are still popular, the opinion that Philippine languages are rendered in the passive voice is considered passe; so taking a convenient way out, I prefer the generic employment of a generic category of focus as an easy solution to the sometime contentious debate about Tagalog and Bisaya (Duterte’s native language) being as being ergative. “PUTANG INA KA” has a different meaning from “PUTANG INA MO”, although both are swear sentences. The latter is frequent among Tagalog speakers, but the first is more frequently used ...
The State in Development Theory: The Philippines Under Marcos M. D. Litonjua Philippine Studies Vol. 49, No. 3 (Third Quarter 2001) , pp. 368-398 (31 pages) Published By: Ateneo de Manila University https://www. jstor .org /stable/42634449 this paper is an essay on why the Marcos regime was not a developmental state, and gives a measure of historical detail. BUT THE SAME LOGIC CAN APPLY TO THE CORY AQUINO government, which purported to be a progressive, inclusivist democratic intervention against the dictatorship. One can ask why Cory refused, even with expert opinion of the UP School of Economics, in the person of her own NEDA Secretary to reform Hacienda Luisita.
The Recovery to Death Ratio, and the Hope of a partial lifting of the ECQ
Since March, I have been crowing about the success of the quarantine as a State led effort to mitigate the SARS -COVID2 epidemic. For this, I have been using the geometric average of the daily growth rates of cases, because that was the most available, and growth of the number of cases tended to show clearly whether the disease was on a massacre rampage, or that we were turning the tide, and "flattening the curve". See the blog post dated March 30, 2020 (We are Winning! Part 2) I had an intense interest in the curve because I really wanted a partial lifting of the quarantine, or at least a modification of the extended community quarantine, or ECQ, which for all practical purposes of confining the citizenry to their homes, was like a martial regime imposed control: curfew from 8 pm to 5 am of the next day, no movement outside of the house, and ONLY for the one authorized to shop essential supplies, nobody. And, of course, that this movement to the store was only on certa...
WE ARE WINNING, Part 2
As exercise in program/project evaluation (and to calm my nerves as a citizen who feels under siege with this lockdown), I have analyzed the daily incidence of infected cases. And as a netizen, I have posted on my FB page a truncated table showing the declining infected rates, and crowed, WE ARE WINNING! The short analysis focused on the declining infection rates from the inflection on March 24. two days straight. I know, two days are too short a period to draw conclusions from, but as the lockdown and extended lockdown were already implemented, I thought should see some real trends. I immediately received comments from a high school classmate who was (is?) a VP for promotions in one of the biggest services group in the country. I also got comments, also almost instantly, from former college students who are now professors, and government consultants on their own. The most incisive of all their comments was that the data set from which the analysis proceeded is too small to draw...