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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Colleagues:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please lend me your ears for a few moments
more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to make the observation that in
tracing the history of the national language - from Tagalog to Pilipino to
Filipino - I came to perceive that as the Filipino people became more secure in
their identity as a nation after about 35 years of independence, the
determination to reject foreign words that prevailed in the 1930s and 40s began
to give way to receptiveness of English words and expressions and retention of
fully and partially acculturated Spanish loanwords. Their sense of
national identity no longer had to be deeply rooted in native purity of
language.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you. Paz</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paz Buenaventura Naylor, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Emeritus Professor, Asian Languages and
Cultures</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Faculty Associate, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Program Associate, Linguistics</FONT></DIV>
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