This is probably the gayest thing to do! (making a blog) since this is my first ever post in my first ever blog i'm making it special.(well... not that special)
Here are my thoughts on why I hated people who made blogs:
1.) You post things you and your friends did together and they are the people who would be most likely reading this anyway so whats the use.
2.) After conducting the shortest survey on Earth, I found out that not much people read blogs anyway (especially if its your -enth time to make one).
3.) Isn't it just a bit boring to write your life on the internet and you'll even skip the cool and embarrassing stuff about yourself because you'd be more embarrassed when your chosen few friends start knowing what happened.
4.) Dont you guys think that by mking a blog you become a stereotype even if make black/dark blogs or blogs that have a gothic theme, please spare me with saying your unique and everybody copied you thats why you look like them (you know what i mean).Its stereotypical!
5.) For guys, this is a woman's thing! Men who "blog" are probably gay or they have some serious issues! (you'd have to vistit a psychologist if you have those "issues"(hehehe)).
I'll start with these five (5) things I hate about bloggers but whats odd... I just put up my own blog! I hope the people who have bloggs would not start erasing their blogs. = ) Have fun reading!!!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
I wrote this on my old blog on November 2006
My Hard English HomeWork #1
Politics and the English Language
by George Orwell
1.) Whats the main idea?
- The author makes it very clear that the use of the English language is degrading and it would be hard to stop something that is bound to happen.
2.) To what does he compare our use of English language? What analogy does he use?
- The author compares our use of the English language to "a man who drinks because he feels himself a failure, and then fail all the more because he drinks". The explanation being that the language is slovenly due to our foolishness but the sloppiness makes it easier for our minds to be foolish.
3.) Sight the ways by which the English language is defiled/violated.
- The author sighted two common mistakes from the five example readings he chose. These were staleness of imagery and lack of position wherein the writer cannot express his/her ideas or he/she says something else.
-Asides from those two, he sights an error in using wrongly using metaphors due to the lack of understanding what they truly mean.
-Another common mistake that he states is the use of pretentious diction. He explains that the use of Greek, Latin, Russian, German or French usually can be replaced by simple English or Anglo-Saxon terms.
-He sights that it is a mistake to use meaningless words. He compares two critiques on the work of a Mr. X. The first of the two is plain and simple while the second was needlessly long due to the use of meaningless words. The author states another example by translating a very simple verse from Ecclesiastes showing that there is a big difference from good old English to Modern English. It ends up twice as long and does not explain much to the reader at least not as much as the original text. The comparison was very funny and most definitely made very curious to the point that I pondered if todays writers actually take this into account.
-Close to the end of the author's write-up, he emphasizes that the use of double negatives is one of the worst things that you can do to "murder" the English language.
4.) The bad use of the English language is clearly seen in today's political writing. How does the author prove this statement?
-The author states that English prose and political writing have a common problem and that would be the staleness in imagery and the lack of precision. Where the writer "either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he/she inadvertently says something else, or he/she is almost indifferent as to whether his/her words mean anything or not.
5.) What are the authors recommendations in the proper use of the language?
-The author tips his readers on how to write properly if "instinct fails"
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figures of speech which you are use to seeing in print
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
(iv) Never use the passive when you can use the active
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner that say anything barbarous
by George Orwell
1.) Whats the main idea?
- The author makes it very clear that the use of the English language is degrading and it would be hard to stop something that is bound to happen.
2.) To what does he compare our use of English language? What analogy does he use?
- The author compares our use of the English language to "a man who drinks because he feels himself a failure, and then fail all the more because he drinks". The explanation being that the language is slovenly due to our foolishness but the sloppiness makes it easier for our minds to be foolish.
3.) Sight the ways by which the English language is defiled/violated.
- The author sighted two common mistakes from the five example readings he chose. These were staleness of imagery and lack of position wherein the writer cannot express his/her ideas or he/she says something else.
-Asides from those two, he sights an error in using wrongly using metaphors due to the lack of understanding what they truly mean.
-Another common mistake that he states is the use of pretentious diction. He explains that the use of Greek, Latin, Russian, German or French usually can be replaced by simple English or Anglo-Saxon terms.
-He sights that it is a mistake to use meaningless words. He compares two critiques on the work of a Mr. X. The first of the two is plain and simple while the second was needlessly long due to the use of meaningless words. The author states another example by translating a very simple verse from Ecclesiastes showing that there is a big difference from good old English to Modern English. It ends up twice as long and does not explain much to the reader at least not as much as the original text. The comparison was very funny and most definitely made very curious to the point that I pondered if todays writers actually take this into account.
-Close to the end of the author's write-up, he emphasizes that the use of double negatives is one of the worst things that you can do to "murder" the English language.
4.) The bad use of the English language is clearly seen in today's political writing. How does the author prove this statement?
-The author states that English prose and political writing have a common problem and that would be the staleness in imagery and the lack of precision. Where the writer "either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he/she inadvertently says something else, or he/she is almost indifferent as to whether his/her words mean anything or not.
5.) What are the authors recommendations in the proper use of the language?
-The author tips his readers on how to write properly if "instinct fails"
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figures of speech which you are use to seeing in print
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
(iv) Never use the passive when you can use the active
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner that say anything barbarous
Saturday, June 23, 2007
New pics posted
These new pictures were taken from the summer of 2007 till present i hope you have fun browsing through them!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Me, Myself and I
This guy love to bake, craft jewelry and eat cheeseburgers till he drops. He is a fan of Naruto: the animated series, family guy, grey's anatomy and the simpsons. Now in 4th year, he realizes that time really goes by so quickly and that it would not stop for anybody or at anything. Noticing how people can be too biased at people that are not like them, he tries to change their attitude as much as he can a person at a time. Life for this guy may seem so plain and simple but only a few know that his life is deeper than the darkest of oceans. This is David. This is me.
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