December 17, 2011 @ 10:35am •
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Jose Honorato Lozano painted this view of the Pateros River in the late 19thC and you can see the duck (pato) industry that gave the place its name. The best balut comes from this Southern Tagalog town, so does the “Peking Duck” served in some local restaurants. One 19thC account says that the men of Pateros sat on the eggs to warm them, they were idle human incubators!
(via History - Ambeth R. Ocampo)
August 27, 2011 @ 2:30pm •
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August 24, 2011
MANILA, Philippines — Language philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein became famous for saying that the limits of one’s language are the limits on one’s world. That is, to say, your experience and knowledge only go as far as you are able to express with language. Whereof one cannot…
Kudos Bing, for this more sensical take on the issue of Language in the Filipino context.