What Will Ensure Consistency in Use of a Philippine Language?
As there is a Kings English, Standard English, and Colloquial English, Any Philippine language also has sets of vocabulary for formal, conversational, technical and colloquial or street speech. Understanding when, where, and how these forms are used will help the translation to be consistent. Assuming that answers to the four questions above are not given, the translator must set up a a style sheet for consistency. This ideal assumes that the translator: • has a wide range of sources for vocabulary: The translators tap their stock knowledge and consult, if needed, various literatures such as popular comics, tabloids, gossip magazines, Liwayway, novels, short stories and poetry published once in a while in some newspapers. Also, listen to the primetime newscasts and watch box office movies and popular soap operas. • listens to dialect patterns: The translator has the confidence to say: “This sounds awkward.” His “ear” for the language will serve as the final determinant for the rightnes
