ONE August, the Buwan ng Wika, Sen. Vicente “Tito Sen” Sotto 3rd asked reporters to translate into Filipino/Tagalog the following sentence: “Sa mga pangulo ng Pilipinas, pang-ilan si Erap Estrada?”
Head-scratching followed Tito Sen’s poser. I’m a full-blooded Ilocano so I had a valid excuse why I couldn’t translate it. However, even the reporters from Tagalog provinces like Quezon, Batangas, Laguna and Cavite were unable to give any satisfactory answer.
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