I see that sacha is looking into learning bisaya. I don't know why that would be, it's not like she's not got enough on her plate already. It's certainly a good thing, learning languages is good.
I hope, though, that it's not so that she can decipher things like this. And that she doesn't try to learn things from that and similar posts on some mailing lists. Almost all visayan posts on that list are like textingese in tagalog or english, essentially illiterate. That's not to insult the poster, that's just students communicating lazily in whatever language they use. It's not their fault, it's cultural. There are wonderful, literate visayan posts somewhere on the Net, i'm sure, but they're not on mailing lists populated by students who don't care enough about their posts to try to spell correctly.
Not that spelling is an easy thing in visayan. There's no given orthography, and the examples in sacha's post feel sort of archaic, although that's better than the illiteracy that passes for communication these days). Sounding archaic isn't a big deal though. Visayan varies from place to place, people will just assume she learned visayan with people who spoke classical visayan.
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