Shiyatap!
I have been recently listening to a lot of call center recordings posted on blogs or sent through emails. Aside from the PLDT “PI” agent, the one that really made me laugh was the girl on the Dumb Pinoy Call Center recording.
Yes, we make fun of these…but don’t a bigger majority of our population actually speak this way? In fact, they should just create a separate dialect or language category altogether for call-center speak…something like “Pinglish”…Pinoy English.
And believe me…Americans can understand Pinoy English very well. Heck, they probably deal with Filipinos practically everyday in the States!
When my dad decided to go to the States, the first question on my mind was, HOW THE HELL IS HE GOING TO SURVIVE THERE?? This is someone who once told me he was going to take me to POK ARTS CHATTER (Folk Arts Theater) and who told me that I was “Kulang sa POKUS” (focus).
And yet, he is now a MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER for this multi-level marketing company he works for. Whenever he brags to me, “Natulala yung mga Amerikano nung narinig mga sinabi ko. Natahimik sila!”…I would wonder if natahimik sila because they were impressed or because they didn’t understand a thing he said??
