Melchor Orpilla is one of the pre-eminent scholars, writers, and advocates of the Pangasinan language. He is the author of Laingen ed Casborran. Currently, he works at the Senior High School division of the Pangasinan State University while he serves as a part-time commissioner for the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino. Among all the writers I’ve read in Pangasinan, he has the widest vocabulary. I feel like he knows more words than most Pangasinenses who wrote dictionaries for the language.