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“What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.” ~Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
There has been a preponderance of products claiming to aid vital organs from harm caused by lifestyles that are characterized by excessive indulgence in eating, bohemian living and [...]
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Now that Benigno Simeon Aquino III has been inaugurated as President of the Republic, all we have now is great expectations… a good start, nonetheless.
For a long time the Philippine political horizon has had no bright light which would promise an end to decades of corruption in government. What started as a flicker [...]
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Bumubungad ang 2010, wala pang palatandaan ng padating na alimpuyo ng eleksiyon-heneral bagaman nasisipat na ang mga pangkatan. Nagpadala ako ng isang email sa isa sa mga kaibigan sa ‘Peysbuk’, isang nagngangalang ‘Chito Gascon’ na nagsasaad na ikinalulungkot ko at di ako makatutulong sa nalalapit na tunggalian na haharapin niya/nila. ‘Apolitical’ ako, sabi ko kay [...]
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In a telephone interview with Ronald Manila, Head of SBS Filipino Program, I shared with Ronald’s listeners my observations in the recent Philippine elections. The interview, conducted in Filipino, was aired last 20 May 2010 over SBS Radio.
Here are some of my notes during the interview.
1.MAARI BANG IBAHAGI MO SA AMIN ANG IYONG NAGING [...]
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In earlier posts, we commented on poetry editing and punctuation, and grammar, spelling and poetry. In this post, I like to comment on the use of apostrophes.
When writing in the English language, we use apostrophes to:
- indicate possession (man’s car)
- indicate plural of lowercase letter and help avoid ambiguity (cross the t’s)
- indicate omitted letters [...]
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We deprive people of the knowledge regarding sex and sexual behaviors and yet we expect them to do the right thing. At this very moment thousands, no, millions are suffering as a result of this deprivation.
This carnal drive we call sex and all the related behaviors and aspects streaming out of it is an inherent [...]
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“New mobile rules mean premium safeguards for SMS” – ACMA headline.
Nothing wrong with using premium mobile as long as the user knows that the usage rates are also at a ‘premium.’ And by ‘premium’ is meant rates higher than the standard rate. Based on our observations, SMS to premium mobile numbers to download ring tones, [...]
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“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is [...]
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I am not surprised that among emanilapoetry contributors, there are those who like to experiment with grammar in their posts. After all, there is the impression that, of various genres of creative writing, poetry gives the writer a license to write in a language, form or structure that he or she pleases.
Unfortunately, creative writing [...]
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