If you want her to shut up, stop talking about her.
Whenever I encounter instances of bad grammar in the mass media I feel like enamel is being ripped off my teeth. This insistence on grammatical correctness may be finicky and old-fashioned, but I am finicky and old, and it’s a little late for me to follow fashion.
Consider this polemic against the presidential sister, television host, product endorser and publicist of her own personal dramas, Kris Aquino. Our corrections are in boldface.
We do not take issue with the content or diction, only the basic grammar. We enjoy reading the writer (Oy pare, I did mention this) and the site; for now we will attribute these lapses to the rush to meet deadlines.
“Only three definite things in this world: death, taxes, and a Kris Aquino controversy.
“Three days before President Noynoy Aquino’s inauguration, she did the inevitable: almost steal the limelight away from his her brother’s inauguration, in through a tearful farewell announcement on The Buzz, which should receive an award for propagating cultural enlightenment. And for fuck’s sake, how many times have has she delivered lachrymose farewells on that show already?
“In the second to the last week Two weeks before the inauguration, her name came up in appeared on the front pages of newspapers, allegedly for having a hand in trying selecting the next senate president for alleged interference in the selection of the next Senate President. She was reportedly calling up senators one by one to support Sen. Francis Pangilinan. One of the candidates for the post, Franklin Drilon, admitted that he—a Cory loyalist through and through—was deeply hurt. A The week after that… kaboom! She will would not be eclipsed by her elder brother’s shindig. And she will never understand the real joys and values (Did you mean virtues?) of privacy. . .” etcetera
I do have a small suggestion: If you want someone to shut up, stop talking about her. The reason some people feel compelled to live out their dramas in public is because the general public is obviously interested in hearing about them. If nobody gave a shit, no amount of media exposure could make them national talking points. If the ratings are low, the networks would stop paying attention. Then they would be yelling in a vacuum.
Admit it: You are fascinated. Revulsion is also a kind of fascination.
The quarry is a soft target, but with massive resources and many allies. You need to be mentally sharp for this, and that includes your grammar.
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July 10th, 2010 at 18:58
“Admit it: You are fascinated.”
I think this is the wickeder slap on the face of Pareng Lourd than the grammar edit.
July 10th, 2010 at 19:41
Lupet ng blog post ni idol Lourd nyan. I guess I was too entertained while reading that I neglected the grammatical errors.
July 10th, 2010 at 20:10
Oh my Lourd!
July 12th, 2010 at 11:24
Because I like Lourd’s ideas, I will forgive him for the grammatical errors. However, the fact that these made it to the site is what bugs me. Doesn’t this site have any proofreaders? Even the editors’ blog posts are littered with so many grammatical errors, you’d wonder how on earth she got the job at all.
July 12th, 2010 at 11:29
lasing lang siguro nung sinulat nya :)