Thursday, July 13, 2006
"Don't judge my brother, he is not a book!"
This is turning out to be such a classic, don't you think? Well, I adore Melanie Marquez's guts and "i don't give a damn about what you think" attitude. I super love her English. She's one person I consider to have a wonderful command of the English language.
Yup, because for me, having a good command of the language, is basically it, literally speaking. It's when you don't care about the tenses, the grammar, the subject-verb agreement, but you just speak and use words according to your own liking. And you manage to make it work, and get your message across. Simply put, it's using the language in a way that works for you.
I, for instance, know that i have a lot of grammatical errors on my blog. But I say, "To hell with all of you, scrutinizing every word I say." Just focus on the thought, and see how I make sense after all. Maybe that's why i didn't come around to majoring in lit. Oh well, I'm loving my style of writing now. It's chick slash tongue-in-cheek slash realist. More like Bridget Jones meets Cher of Clueless. Works for me. Hey, but that doesn't mean I'm shallow and all I could talk about is makeup and relationship or parties (although I could always go on talking about them for hours!), I coud be deep if you want me to. Or get a hold of my writngs in college, i could cook up a mean straight businessly English or straight newscaster-like Filipino for you.
And I'm really a pronounciation girl, I wouldn't care if your grammar's all wrong, but you better say it right. I even correct my mom or my boyfriend if they mis-pronounce a word or thing (but hey, that happens really rarely, and it's for their own good. And I still love them regardless). Another thing with me though, is that when I get too passionate talking about something, the words come out so mixed up. Which only proves that my mind is a lot faster than my mouth. Well, I'm forever trying to troubleshoot that tiny glitch...
okay, enough about me... here are some for your own vocabulary:
drama mama - one who draws conflict and negativity to themselves for attention or self-grandification
Fetch - means cool, popularized by the movie "Mean Girls", a little trivia though, this term was already used in a website way before the movie was shown. Aside from that, the word which was a shortened verion of fetching was used a lot in England, earlier than when the word cool was used.
Snakes on a plane - an intense crisis or problem that is totally unexpected and will require all of one's wits to solve. Kind of similar to the phase C'est la vie, Sh*t happens...
K-Fed-Ex - Kevin Federline after Britney Spears dumps him
JMT - Just My Type
Jedi Mind Trick - an attempt by a person to get out of something by using the old tricks.
TTYL - talk to you later
Okay, so that's it for now, try using some new words to your vocabulary. TTYL!
another adventure for COSMOGIRL!
