Archive for the ‘grammar/language’ Category
It’s Your Lost Not Mine
This isn’t even the first time a guy has said this to me.
Southridge Night School on Dylan Thomas
Luigi’s still getting the hang of grading papers so he sometimes asks for my help, but I’ve never encountered papers this bad before and I’m not sure how to grade them. “Epic Fail” is not part of the official grading system.
I bring you four alternative interpretations of Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night:
“For my opinion (should or shouldnt matter) I THINK this poem is telling that everyone dies. The old the young, the tyrant the rightease. It’s only their oppinion on their deaths that differ. The wise men know, the good men hope, the wild men grieve the Grave men are ‘blind’. That is pointless because they all die.“
“Good night is the way we should spend our night time gently, peacefully and dimly. The meaning of the ‘old age should burn and rave at the close of day’ is that they want old time or old age should be destroy and to speak or to should with extravagant enthusiams during the night or before the day comes. Rage against the dying of the ‘rage against the dying of the light’ means that these men are angry hatred and have bad attitude against day time. These men want to do whatever they want before day time. Rage means not anger alone but to be violent and having a furiously and uncontrolled anger.”
“The Good Night means that the darkness of the night is good and right, that bad is good. No it is not just the setting of the sun. It could also be bad weather.”
“Old men should die and burn because if they do it they shouldn’t hurt/feel pain in this world. You can’t see clearly when the sun setted down especially you’re in the forest. Big or old aged men’s eyes are closed and it will never open. The rage is the engraveful feeling of the old age that they couldn’t stay or live. They wanted to stay with their love one’s/families and their body wouldn’t agree to his decision to live. I thinked that someone is an old aged man that feel him/her a pain because I thinked that this author feeling the pain of this old man that is fighting to live and this author weeps.”
Southridge Drug Awareness Campaign
I took these pictures while waiting for my brother Luigi to get out of work. The security guard was looking at me kinda funny as I was chortling to myself in the corridor.
“Ketamine is not medicine… It's a sin.”
“I know you don't wanna marry Juana.”
“Do drugs and you're no better than a dirty old rug!!!”
“Hey cousin, if you wanna win don't take Ketamine!”
“Morphine is just plain mean!”
“Don't be a butthead.”
“Remember: a moment of pleasure is worth years of pain…”
“Drink coke don't sniff!”
Signs and Taglines
Whose lost is it anyway?
Random YM Dude: labas tayo
Me: no thanks
Random YM Dude: y
Me: just not interested
Random YM Dude: maybe ur gay
Me: you’re not my type
Random YM Dude: u havent met me
Random YM Dude: hw can u say that
Random YM Dude: dis is chat
Random YM Dude: u dnt even know hw genuine
Random YM Dude: m from ateeno
Random YM Dude: dats part of our values formation
Random YM Dude: u just dnt knw me
Me: and i don’t want to get to know you
Random YM Dude: watever
Random YM Dude: its nOT MY LOST ANYWAY
Me: you mean your LOSS, not LOST
Random YM Dude: no
Random YM Dude: its past tense na
And all this time I was under the impression that only verbs have tenses. Apparently nouns and adjectives have them too.
Signs
From Estosan Garden Hotel in Cotabato City:
“Sweet Dream”
Just one. After the first they start charging.
“The massage shall be provided by a Blind-Male Monsieur.”
Do they mean monsieur or masseuse? I suppose both are technically correct, although a male monsieur is kind of redundant.
Making Up Laws About Grammars
OAKENFOLLD: hi are you a pretty girl here whos up for a civilize conversation over the landline now?
Me: you mean civilized conversation, don’t you?
OAKENFOLLD: nope civilize
OAKENFOLLD: learn y67our grammar before you each others
OAKENFOLLD: have ever heard of a present tense
OAKENFOLLD: you want me to give you a blunt example
Me: dude, you’re not using “civilize” as a verb, you’re using it as an adjective to describe “conversation.” adjectives don’t have present tenses! tenses only apply to verbs!
OAKENFOLLD: ah by the way youre too dumb for me
OAKENFOLLD: what the hell are you talikng about hahah
OAKENFOLLD: youre making your own laws about grammars
