Comments on: ‘Kalandrakas’, still: What’s with the hyphen ‘Kagay-an’? http://blog.cdokay.com/uncategorized/kalandrakas-still-whats-with-the-hyphen-kagay-an/ CDOKAY..."City of Golden Friendship gud, Okay gyud!" Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:28:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Roy Gaane http://blog.cdokay.com/uncategorized/kalandrakas-still-whats-with-the-hyphen-kagay-an/#comment-1666 Roy Gaane Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:01:55 +0000 http://blog.cdokay.com/uncategorized/kalandrakas-still-whats-with-the-hyphen-kagay-an/#comment-1666 Kagay-an is from our own native tongue. It is not an English term or word. So placing a hyphen is anybody's privilege. The hyphen here was placed, I believe, by the author to emphasize where the accent should be. Its how the old folks pronounce it and it also distinguishes us from those in the Cagayan Valley province. With the advent of the computer, the English language is changing and new terms are created and accepted. Semantics is now a game. Texting is even making it worse. Kagay-an is from our own native tongue. It is not an English term or word. So placing a hyphen is anybody’s privilege. The hyphen here was placed, I believe, by the author to emphasize where the accent should be. Its how the old folks pronounce it and it also distinguishes us from those in the Cagayan Valley province.

With the advent of the computer, the English language is changing and new terms are created and accepted. Semantics is now a game. Texting is even making it worse.

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