Rollercoaster Ride

Okay this is the other side of the spectrum, and for me the least positive blog I have because it actually acknowledges my pet peeves which are not really my style to share. I don’t hate these things, I just don’t like them. And I guess this is also because of the way I was brought up. Growing up, my dad and sister taught me not to say certain words.  So for what it’s worth, here is the list of the least:

1. People who intentionally misspell the way words are spelled.Like eniwei, gud and teyk. Webster has already given words their spelling, and we’ve accepted those for the past 100 years. Why are we wasting our time thinking of new ways to spell things? On text message it’s a bit more acceptable. But on email?  I mean it’s hard enough for some people to spell words the way they are to be spelled. I actually knew a 21-yr old guy who spelled tommorrow, Consolate and Wensday that way.

2. People who refer to the Philippines as PI. If we want to refer to our country in two letters, it better be RP as in Republic of the Philippines, not Philippine Islands which was used in the time of the Spanish colonization i.e. 19th century.

3. In messages, referring to compatriots as kabababayans (with an s). To make a Tagalog word  plural, add ‘mga’.To make an English word plural, add ’s’.

4. People who still call going to the bathroom ‘jingle’. Yikes!

5. People who wet their fringers when reading newspapers and getting papers. Yuck! As if they can’t turn the page without licking their finger first. C’mon, would you rather have salivated edges of your magazine?

6. People who think all the world is against them or is out to get them.

Note: There was actually a NYTimes article about someone who hates the misuse of Apostrophes (’) so much. As in picture’s, shes, etc. He had a a whole club or campaign that corrected any error themselves or advised businesses about the wrongdoing. Only 1 out of 10 businesses made the adjustment.

More to come as I notice other nitty gritties.This is just a topic and I know I make mistakes too

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