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Christianity and how it preserved traditional languages, 2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO CONSIDER what the New Testament has to say: ā€œAll of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to...

Christianity and how it preserved traditional languages, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THE FIRST Visayan dictionary was written by Jesuit missionaries in the early 1600s. We can infer that at this time,...

Why foreigners seem to find learning Hiligaynon and Cebuano easier than Tagalog

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO AUSTRONESIA languages are agglutinative. This means that in order to construct words that indicate verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, one starts...

ā€˜Malangsang Isdaā€™

BY DR. JOSE DACUDAO ā€œBELIEVING in the inviolability of the small set of rules that they have managed themselves to acquire, they condemn others from...

Why Ilonggos find it difficult to learn Cebuano, 2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THE PREFIX NAG- alone by itself does not tell you that the action has occurred in a point in the...

Why Ilonggos find it difficult to learn Cebuano, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO The ā€˜Timelessness on a Timelineā€™ of Cebuano Cebuano verbs do not place an action in a definite point in the timeline. A...

The Haberā€“Bosch process, starvationā€¦,2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO Thus, the Haberā€“Bosch process became the main industrial process for the production of ammonia. Ammonia NH3 in turn is the...

The Haberā€“Bosch process, starvationā€¦, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO BY THE MID-1800s humanity was in trouble. Population growth was outpacing food production. The problem could be summed up in...

Isabella II, the Pera Scandal

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO (Tagalistas force curse word for money into Binisaya) ISABELLA II of Spain (October 10, 1830 ā€“ died April 10, 1904, reigned from...

Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide review, 5

WHEN eukaryotic organisms evolved in the seas, some of them began incorporating calcium carbonate (CaCO3) into their bodies as skeleton and armor, making it...