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"hey everyone..
i just had to share something that came up today and it made me feel a bit sick to my stomach.
so, here's the visual...
me and my friend Patrick walking into a store, and two paparazzi come up out of nowhere (like usual) and start throwing questions at me...
one of them being, "Hey Lindsay, what do you have to say about people commenting on your sisters implants?"
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my response simply was, "Did you really just ask me that? She is a 14 year old girl, and you are a pedophile!"
i was caught out of nowhere so i didn't really come up with the proper response at the time.. there's many other things that i felt like saying, but why give it to a random guy with a camera so that he can make money!
All i am trying to say is, is that, i was raised with a wonderful family surrounding me, of course we have our ups and downs, but all in all my mother taught us to appreciate what we have been given. Nor would she ever encourage, or allow a 14 year old child to alter her body.
i am not judging people that do, but i am just saying that its not something that my family finds necessary to do, especially when you're not even fully developed yet!
It is hard enough being 14 years old and you have enough insecurities to begin with, then add being in the public eye...
i just find it really disconcerting that people have to focus on the negative and that some people are sooooo bored with their own lives that they need to manifest lies to hurt another person.
in a more positive light...
i got some great clothes from alexander wang and i miss samantha cuz she's out of town :(
have a wonderful day everyone~
til next time..
xx LL"
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Gah! See??? This is why our children are slowly losing their ability to speak properly! Argh!!!
What I thought would be a leisurely half hour of not having to think about editing became a laborious - albeit somewhat humorous - hour of doing just that! Dear readers, you understand how I couldn't have resisted correcting her grammar! So here, I've attached the document that shows how I did just that.
Warning, it has a ton of corrections, so if you don't have time, don't even bother reading through it all. But, if you want a good intellectual hyuk-hyuk, go right ahead. (The attached document can be found at the very bottom.)
The one below is the version that has all my suggestions for improvement:
Hey, everyone…
I just had to share something that came up today and it made me feel a bit sick to my stomach.
So here's the visual...
My friend Patrick and I were walking into a store, and two paparazzi come out of nowhere (as usual) and start throwing questions at me.
One of them asked, "Hey Lindsay, what do you have to say about people commenting on your sisters implants?"
WOW!!!
My response simply was, "Did you really just ask me that? She is a 14-year-old girl, and you are a pedophile!"
I was caught off guard so I didn't really come up with the proper response at the time. There were many other things that I felt like saying, but why give it to a random guy with a camera so that he can make money?
All I am trying to say is, I was raised with a wonderful family surrounding me. Of course we have our ups and downs, but through it all, my mother taught us to appreciate what we have been given. She would never encourage nor allow a 14-year old child to alter her body. I am not judging people that do, but I am just saying that it's not something that my family finds necessary to do, especially if we are not even fully developed yet! Being 14 years old is hard enough as it is, what with having enough insecurities that already make life difficult. Having to do it in front of the public eye makes it even tougher
I just find it really disconcerting that people have to focus on the negative and that some people are so bored with their own lives that they need to create lies to hurt another person.
In a more positive light...I got some great clothes from Alexander Wang. But I miss Samantha because she's out of town :(
Have a wonderful day everyone~
Until next time…
xx LL
Feel free to add your own corrections. I'm tired, so I might have missed some errors. LOL!
And now I go back to work...editing...again. Sigh.
Attachment: Corrections.doc
HAHAHA MA'AM!
ReplyDeleteTuloy, naalala ko 'yung second-year English! :))
I guess if you have money you don't have to go to school anymore... well at least she should take an ESL class he he!
ReplyDeleteI have a grammar question -- I always thought it was incorrect to put a comma after "and." What are your thoughts?
ReplyDeleteFUNNY!
ReplyDeleteDo you mean a comma before "and" in a series? Like in "Katz, Biba, and Danna are such grammar geeks?"
ReplyDeleteI have the answer to that if that's your question ;)
parehas kami ng tanong ate katz. I see that often pa naman. :) WHEN DO WE USE IT? :)
ReplyDeleteExactly. :-) Nyahaha! Dans, I love you to death!!! But if that's not your question, B, give us more details na lang. :-)
ReplyDeleteHeeheehee... :-)
ReplyDeleteDo you mean like what Danna illustrated? A lot of writers don't really put the comma after the "and" in a series. I suppose it's also acceptable. I, however, am such a stickler for such things, and I always use a comma after the "and."
ReplyDeletenanoodp saidFUNNY!
ReplyDeleteHeehee!
commasrule saidDo you mean a comma before "and" in a series? Like in "Katz, Biba, and Danna are such grammar geeks?"
I have the answer to that if that's your question ;)
Exactly. :-) Nyahaha! Dans, I love you to death!!! But if that's not your question, B, give us more details na lang. :-)
bibacabuquit saidI have a grammar question -- I always thought it was incorrect to put a comma after "and." What are your thoughts?
dramaqueengoddess saidparehas kami ng tanong ate katz. I see that often pa naman. :) WHEN DO WE USE IT? :)
Do you mean like what Danna illustrated? A lot of writers don't really put the comma after the "and" in a series. I suppose it's also acceptable. I, however, am such a stickler for such things, and I always use a comma after the "and."
But wait, B, you said after "and." Hmmm. I don't think I've encountered that (or maybe I have when I still teaching Special English, hehe.) For example?
class is in session hahaha :p
ReplyDeletemaybe comma after "and", like the pause in a conversation?
natatakot na tuloy ako mag-ingles kasi baka may mapuna ang guro....
karpintero saidmaybe comma after "and", like the pause in a conversation?
ReplyDeleteAh! Yeah! Well, if that's the case, then yeah, put a comma. Thanks, Cricket!
(Look at us coming together for the sake of grammar! LAVET!!!) LOL!
karpintero saidnatatakot na tuloy ako mag-ingles kasi baka may mapuna ang guro....
Huwag naman sana! Ako naman natatakot mag-Tagalog kasi mahahalata ang pagka-Kolehiyala ko. Mawawalan ng bisa ang mga mala-tibak kong hangarin! Hehe. ;-)
(Papa's right behind me, by the way. I said, "Pa, remember Cricket?" Hehe. :-) Dude, you are officially my oldest friend ever. He says hi.)
It is acceptable not to use it, which is the reason why when I was editing the 1,132 write-ups in college, I did away with it because I thought it looked much cleaner. (Besides, I felt the comma was already over-abused to begin with.)
ReplyDeleteBUT halfway through editing, Karen (Cardenas) lent me the Chicago Manual of Style, which is the bible of the publishing industry (as you know, Katz) AND to my horror it said to use a comma in a series.
So, nevermind that I was halfway done; I went back to write-up #1 and re-edited.
That's how dedicated I am to my punctuation marks. :P
Hence, commas rule. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow! How did you reply to multiple recipients?
ReplyDeleteThrough HTML:
ReplyDelete<div class="quotet" ><div class="quotea" ><a href=" http://username.multiply.com" > username</a > said</div ><img src=" http://images.multiply.com/common/misc/quote-start.gif" align="left" ><i >Copy and paste portion of the comment.</i ><img src="http://images.multiply.com/common/misc/quote-end.gif" > </div >
Just replace the bolded items appropriately. :-)
katinkateeny saidCopy and paste portion of the comment.
ReplyDeleteYay! Thanks! :)
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