Posted 4:30 PM

Keen eye?

So I was just browsing the goodworkpark hotel brochure.
http://www.goodwoodparkhotel.com/Goodwood_Park_Hotel.pdf

Ooh grand structure. Lovely rooms. Majestic lobby (OMG no it's not a lobby. It's a suite!) Cozy pool. Majestic ballroom (ahh yes). Picturesque lounge. Saliva inducing food.

So I reached the bottom of the page and glanced at the words. blah blah blah renowed taiwanese porridge??? wtf is 'renowed'???? Then, blah blah renowed Shima Japanese Restaurant???

Then I saw the word 'savor'. Ok fine you spell it the amedican ang moh way. I scrolled right to the top, you spelt 'favoured'!!! Inconsistency!!

I'm not saying I'm perfect, but
is this the 'keen eye for english grammar and spelling mistakes' people are looking for?


On the same engrish topic, I believed I might have shown similar vent before, but why is our government printing things in amedican form, using z instead of s in many words like organise and familiarise? Why do people type organise, let the microsoft word automatically change it to organize, and let it be? Do you know I change back every single word again? ('Cos I'm a sucker and I can't seem to put the dictionary to the UK default). Why?!?! In Universities ok we're supposed to know it already, while anyway you can't expect foreign professors to meet our styles. Damnit, I have a French prof who uses +- signs and other symbols in her powerpoint slides to denote numbers, and other symbols not normally denoted by these symbols. Confused? It's like telling you "ok kids, for today's powerpoint slide, 1 = 2, and 2 = 3. But = = =/=, ie equal is equal to not equal.

WHATEVER!

Lastly, why do I care so much about these?!??! I DON'T KNOW! Again I shall practise humility by saying my english is not that good, but at least it's better than most of my peers. Why? I don't know. I don't read that much, nor write that much either. Is it the Hollywood movies? I don't know when did I become so conscious of every single irritating thing, or seem to have a keener eye than the rest to spot mistakes. Is it 'cos of the way I was brought up? In a good school? Do the standards of english teachers differ so much?

Why am I so conscious? Sometimes it drives people crazy. I don't know when if I should correct them, or just shut my ass up. Sometimes it drives me crazy. Yesterday I watched Michelle and Gurmit eat some mee rebus on some food show. Michelle said something along the lines of "this don't contain so much oil". I immediately thought shouldn't it be "this doesn't...?" On hindsight, maybe she meant 'these'? OH Why the BEEP DOES IT MATTER?

After my graduation, I can't say I'm passionate in English anymore. I mean I was, a little, in reading some and writing some, and feel a little good to be able to correct sentences, though I don't know why.

I mean if you write "the dog ate a shit pile of."
I can tell you it's wrong. But I don't know why, or how to explain. Yes, this after having taken all those extremely boring english modules. Like pragmatics semantics and shit. I can tell you it's wrong. I can explain in baby terms. But not technical terms.

If a child writes 1+1 = 3. Are you gonna throw out your thesis proof of why 1+1 = 2? No. You can just explain it simply, and he gets it, sooner or later.

Why do we need to learn such stuff? I hate it. I hate drawing tree diagrams. Knowing noun phrases, verb phrases. Learning english was fun, but learning this type of english was sickening, to say the nicest expletive I can think of.

I'm just going on and on. I'll end abruptly, because it's almost 5pm and I don't wanna be late in picking up Princess P.

Piss out.

triggering Mr Ng HS |