the Palace press officer announced at midnight that office work in “NCR, Region IV-A, Region IV-B” has been suspended Monday Dec. 8…
then left people to their own devices.
poor press staff work, or laziness, or cluelessness, or #walangkeber
NCR, for the bigger part of the audience, should also be read out as Metro Manila, “Region IV-A” should also be read out as “CaLaBaRZon” or should also be read out as the five provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon (CaLaBaRQue dapat but the office that coined this a long time ago probably wanted a “zony”-sounding name); while “Region IV-B” should also be read as MiMaRoPa or should also be read out as Mindoro (both Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro), Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan.
hashtags #walangopisina or #walangpasok , government offices Metro Mla, Southern Luzon
how to pronounce the Filipino word HagupÍt (the major “Category 3” to “Category 4” storm/ hurricane with the designated international name: Typhoon Hagupít, local name, Typhoon Ruby): This is a 10-second audio file, it plays automatically (sorry, couldn’t help it — wanted to correct the pronunciation since it is a Filipino word that has a peculiar pronunciation that jives with its meaning) … hagupít, a Filipino word which means to lash is pronounced in a “rapid” way — a short “a”, a rapid and emphatic “g” and a strong stress on the last syllable… Hagupít. It’s pronounced with some kind of strength … (can you hear it now, the soundcloud clip plays automatically)… like so…
(featured image from cnn.com, used here non-commercially for educational purposes to show the correct pronunciation of the Filipino word hagupít)
