Nupay agpapadatayo nga Ilocano, adda latta dagiti pagdudumaan dagiti balikas nga usartayo. Ala man kakabsat, padasentayo man nga ilista dagiti pagsusupadian dagiti usartayo a balikas. Pakinayonyo metten ti probinsiayo. I plan ngamin nga agaramidto iti panagadal maipanggep iti daytoy ket tulungandak kadi nga ag-gather iti data. Agyamanak iti adu. —Sherma

Ilocano Dialectal Differences

A line in the novel “Whirlwind” by James Clavell reads: “You’re not dead until you’re dead.”

In my life, there have been moments when I had thought things were lost that I was already bracing myself for an imminent failure and planning on how to get back up. And then someone would come along — often in the nick of time — who would unceremoniously save me from my predicament. Immediately afterwards, things would return to normal as if the crisis I’d just been through was simply imagined
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Ilocos Norte, June 12-14, 2009