Congratulations to the winners of the Wika 2007 Blog Writing Contest. You may now view the final results at PinoyBlogoSphere.com.
The winners are the following:
Grand Prize
Tungo sa pagbabanyuhay by Ding Fuellos
Second Prize
Naykupu! by Ynon
Third Prize
Ang Obra by Feddie Marc S. Perez
Participants’ Choice Award
Pista ng Wikang Filipino/The Spectacle of the Filipino Language by Marocharim
Update (September 4, 4:08 pm):
Misteryosa Award
‘THE’ Filipino Language: WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN??? by Frances Paola G. Doplon
A Language We All Need to Learn by Ayel
Update (September 10, 10:32 am):
Consolation Prizes
Ang paradigm shift at ang mga erehe ng KWF by Willy Prilles, Jr.
Wika at Musika by Garry Victor Urbi
I agreed to serve as one of the judges, and I obviously had a hard time rating the 57 entries. Even if the winners were determined by online polling and judges’ scores which account for 50 percent each, I can safely say (without disclosing the scores I gave to the entries) that the first, second and third-prize winners, not to mention the Misteryosa awardees, Participants’ Choice awardees and one of the consolation prize winners, were in my top 20.
While there is cogent reason for some bloggers to initially worry that the competition may be reduced to a popularity contest through online polling, that hasn’t been the case. I think that’s the reason for getting judges like me. In the spirit of transparency, I should tell you that I did not look at the poll results while rating the 57 entries so that I can avoid being influenced, if at all, by the sentiments of the blogging community.
Given that online polling has a dangerous tendency to increase the scores of the undeserving but popular (which fortunately did not happen in this contest), my suggestion to the organizers is to include a Judges’ Choice Award in the future, in the same way that there is a Participants’ Choice Award. Wouldn’t that make the contest better next year, assuming that it will still be held?
Again, congratulations to the winners and those who participated in this contest. You have every reason to be proud of what you’ve written.
Nawa’y pagyamanin at paunlarin natin ang wikang Filipino sa pamamagitan ng makabuluhang pagsusulat sa bagong midya. (May we all nurture and develop the Filipino language through relevant writing in the new media.)
Magandang araw po. Ikinagagalak po namin na isa kayo sa mga naging hurado ng Wika2007. Lubos po kaming nagpapasalamat sa inyong malaking tulong. Asahan po namin ang inyong patuloy na suporta sa mga susunod pang mga taon. Sang-ayon po ako doon sa Judges’ choice award. Sa katunayan po, nasa plano na rin po ang pagbibigay sana ng ganong award bilang consolation prize kung sakali man na hindi naging Grand winner ang nakakuha ng pinaka-mataas na score mula sa mga Judges. Pero sa pagkakataong pong ito, ang Judges’ choice po ngayon ay siya rin namang ating Grand winner kaya malamang po ay sa ibang participants natin maibibigay ang isa pang consolation prize :) Maraming salamat at mabuhay po kayo!
Sagot: Walang anuman. Buti naman at ang grand prize winner din ang nakakuha ng pinakamataas na grado.
if by enriching the “Filipino language” you mean converting non-Tagalogs into Tagalogs and marginalizing us non-Tagalogs, we won’t be helping out. We’ve suffered long enough with Tagalog domination, punished for speaking our own languages and branded “regional” as if we’re not part of this nation.
There is no Filipino language.
Reply: Filipino language refers to the lingua franca which is unfortunately not yet fully developed, no thanks to an educational system that uses English as medium of instruction and mainstream media that tend to frame English speakers as the intelligent and sensical ones. Even journalism in Filipino is associated with sensationalized reporting, the kind of daily fare we get from most tabloids (not to mention occassional headlines in even some of the top-selling broadsheets). Tagalog is just one of the languages from where the lingua franca should be derived. This would explain, for example, the orientation of the UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino which lists down words not only from Tagalog but other languages like Bikol and Kapampangan. Having said this, I agree that there is no fully developed Filipino language, at least for now. To quote from the UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (which I sometimes use to write my column articles for Pinoy Weekly), “Konstitusyon ang nagtatakda sa Filipino bilang pambansang wika ng Filipinas. Kinikilala nito ang Filipino na isang buhay na wika na pinagyayaman at dapat pang pagyamanin ng iba’t ibang wika sa Filipinas at, gayundin, ng mga wikang banyagang naging bahagi ng ating kasaysayan.” I hope this helps. I wish you all the best. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you for being a judge po!
“In the spirit of transparency, I should tell you that I did not look at the poll results while rating the 57 entries so that I can avoid being influenced, if at all, by the sentiments of the blogging community.”
And thanks, too, for being so objective in your judging! Grabe, hindi biro ang pagbasa at pag-rate ng 57 entries! Mabuhay ang Wikang Pinoy!
(To anyone picky about the number of “language”: yes, that means Tagalog AND non-Tagalog languages collectively.)
Reply: You’re most welcome. To tell you the truth, even if I’m used to editing several articles on a weekly basis, I can’t say that it’s easy to read through the submitted entries. But I’m not complaining. I actually enjoyed it. Thanks for the kind words. Cheers!
Marocharim here. Glad to know that my entry made it to your top 20. Although I think my idiosyncrasy shows in that entry, in the sense that I still think that language is arbitrary.
Many thanks.
Reply: You’re welcome and I hope you’ll continue writing. I see a lot of potential.
i discovered your website about two years ago…Parang doon yata galing ang link sa Bulatlat. Di po ako maxadong sigurado. You featured your students’ websites there–parang projects yata nila. Naaliw din ako sa mga picture nyo po…yung may dignified look, terorista look at iba pa….tsaka yung mga siinulat nyo po tugkol sa langis.
my point is idol ko po kayo and kayo po ang naisip ko na pwedeng mag-judge sa Wika2007 nung may online conference ang PBS members more than a month ago….
Yun po. Magandang Arao! :)
Reply: Thank you for your kind words. I wish you all the best. Cheers!
ngayon ko lang nakita ang inyong blog at pati na rin ang post tungkol sa pakontes na yun. maraming salamat rin po pala, hehe. kahit dalawang taon na ang nakakaraan, nakakatuwa pa rin.
Feddie Marc Perez
Sagot: Walang anuman.