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Fasten your seatbelts

By Butch Dalisay | August 11, 2003 - 12:00am

As long-time Penman readers know, I’m all for the greater use of Filipino in our national life, even at the cost of a little discomfort. We need a national language aside from English, and it’s way too...

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