You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better.

Friday, December 12, 2008:

Aside from subway rats and manyak guys, one of the things that irritate me most are English Nazis.

A few days ago, there was a discussion in Multiply about Gossip Girl's latest episode, "Oh brother, where Bart thou" (which I think is GG's best ep yet, and Chuck is oh-so great/dreamy-- but that's not the topic here!). The post was from a member, who I'll hide under the alias, Manual. So, here it goes...
Manual asked us (the other members) what we though of the said episode, without biases towards the actors, because she thought it wasn't "all that." One of the members who replied, let's call her "Tuesday", stated her opinion- she said she liked it because blah, blah, blah, blah. Manual then replies to her comment, counteracts and gives the reasons why she didn't like it that much. The discussion was going great until Manual decides to be a mighty know-it-all and puts a P.S. at the end of her message saying (directly copy-pasted),

"You have a typo. You said "then again, as an ACTOR, he's acting on the last ep is good or the best among previous episodes. its HIS acting not HE'S acting."

Which Tuesday replies with a, "Sorry for the typo, TAO LANG PO.", and Manual says, "I'm sorry. I'm OC when it comes to speeeeeelling. =))."


Pfft. That really annoyed me!!! I mean, what does Tuesday's grammar have to do with the topic? Kailangan ba talagang ipamukha kay Tuesday na nagkamali siya? If her intentions were really for the good, like to help Tuesday understand and know her mistake, she should have just PM-ed her. Pero hindi eh, brinoadcast niya talaga para siguro sabihin nung mga tao na ang bobo naman ni Tuesday at siya itong matalino. Lumalabas kasi na parang ganun eh. Pero okay Ms. Manual, since gusto mo pala ng ganunan and since we're being all technical here narin naman, I too, would like to point out your errors...

1. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE:
"You have a typo. You said(,) "then again, as an ACTOR, he's acting on the last ep is good or the best among previous episodes.(")(.) i(I)t(')s HIS acting not HE'S acting."
2. When you said you were OC when it came to spelling... Hmm. Iha, what you pointed out was not a spelling mistake but an error in GRAMMAR USAGE.
3. WHAT IS "=))" and "speeeeeelling" ??? Diba Ms. Smarty pants ka? So you should know that a happy face and quintuple E's are not part of writing a correct sentence structure.

Sorry, perfectionist ka kamo diba? Eh ano tong mga mali mo?

Hay! Nakakagigil lang kasi. Yung mga taong ganyan. Bakit kailangan nilang gawin yun? Nakakataas ba ng tingin sa sarili nila pag naka ganun sila ng tao? Feel na feel ba nila na ang tali-talino nila. Kung sa Dictionary nga may mga errors eh! Kung yung iba ngang mga ethnic groups na English ang native tongue, tinatapos ang sentence nila sa prepositions eh (ex. "Where you at?"). Kung yung mga English teachers nga na mas marami pang alam, hindi ganyan outside the classroom eh. Diba?

Haha! Iniisip ko nga kaya niya nalang nasabi yun kasi wala na siyang masabi dun sa opinion ni Tuesday eh. Kaya ayun, nag off-topic nalang siya. Aww, poor you.

(At please, kung gustong mag-Ingles ng isang tao.. hayaan niyo siya. Kahit pa mali-mali ang pronunciation at pag form niya ng sentence eh wala tayong pakialam dun. May utak ang tao, hayaan mo siyang madiskubri sa sarili niya mismo yung mali niya. Hindi yung sasabihan mo ng, "Mag-tagalog ka na nga lang!" Eh hindi mo lang minaliit yung tao dun eh, pati yung wika natin dinamay mo pa sa pagsabi mo ng, "lang." Hanggat naiintindihan mo yung gustong iparating sayo nung tao, sapat na yun dapat.)

Ang point ko lang naman wag sana tayong mang-insulto kasi hindi naman tayo perpekto. Simple at kaliit liit na bagay gagawin pang malaki.

At para kay Manual, kung mabasa mo man to, hindi ako galit sayo (diba nga nagcomment pa ko sa isa mong post na nagustuhan ko talaga?), kundi naiinis ako sa mga taong pareho mo magisip. Kung ikaw man yung nagawa kong ehemplo, paumanhin dahil ikaw yung nakapag-trigger ng asar ko, pero matagal ko na talagang gustong i-blog yung topic na to.



There you go! If I missed out anythings or if you thinked these entry has erorrs to, then please, buy all means, BRING IT ON pOwHzZZZz.

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