SAP #3
For people who had mastered the grammar and pronunciation of English(pipol op da Republic op da Pilipins, lisen ap!) by non-English-native speakers, people who are not trained by it tend to see this as a sort of 'ka-artehan'--for the elite, of for those who wanted to be seen highly. This is especially true to where I'm standing, as people who talk to a person always using the American slang and its informal speeches see this unappealing in a sense that they wished that this person should live in the States instead.
But I'm not going to blog about that. I'm going to talk about how important grammar and pronunciation can be when you ARE speaking in English.
I'm going to narrate a bunch of stories.
Friend: 'May pisbook ka?'
Me: (pisbook? Fish book?)'Fish book?'
Friend: 'Pisbook! Yung online!'
Me: 'Ah, Facebook! Sorry...'
Friend #1: 'Wanna me go with you to CR?'
Me: 'Sige.'
Friend #2: 'What did you say?'
Friend #1: 'I'm gonna, like, escort her to restroom for a while.'
Friend #2: 'Ah, okay...'
Mom: 'Gusto mo ng Hush Brown?'
Brother: 'Sapatos? (thnking of Hush Puppies)'
Mom: 'Ba't mo kakainin sapatos?'
Me: 'Baka Hash Browns ata yun.'
Brother: 'Ah, o sige...'
A joke I remember goes like this:
English - Visayan:
Peace - Pis
Fish - Pis
Face - Pis
Pace - Pis
For me, learning to pronounce the words correctly whenever we learn new languages is as important as learning how the language works. You never know if this could lead from misunderstanding to fights.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Hearing Balthier's voice--Magnetism through speaking
S.A.P. #2
Whenever my younger brother plays his video game, Final Fantasy XII, I would watch it and wait for how our two most favorite characters will react to their quest and crack up a wise nugget or so.
If you want to know who our favorite characters are, their names are Balthier and Fran, Sky Pirates in the fictional fantasy world of Ivalice, where most of their adventures are happening.
For a short description, Balthier and Fran are sky Pirates, Balthier being the suave, British-accented and cocky Human, while his partner, Fran, is a Viera, a tall and lithe creature who are mysterious and odd as their trademark rabbit-like ears.
What makes them my favorite characters is that the way they stand-out is because of how these two work together in a sense that they are reminiscent to Han Solo and Chewbacca's partnership.
But anyway, I'm not going to talk about how much of a fan I am and describe them. I'm here to talk about how Balthier wins fans by his sharp looks and even sharper witty lines.
Just hearing Balthier's voice (mind you, he's voiced by a Brit!) and how every line he says to any of the characters exudes confidence makes him every bit more interesting, therefore creating a sort of magnetizing charm. (Great. Just what a fan girl would EXACTLY say about her favorite). His masculinity also redefines it in a sense that he doesn't have to show muscles or brawn to be masculine.
Anyway, if you don't believe me, just watch this short video of him
(Great! Just how a fan girl WOULD show it)
Whenever my younger brother plays his video game, Final Fantasy XII, I would watch it and wait for how our two most favorite characters will react to their quest and crack up a wise nugget or so.
If you want to know who our favorite characters are, their names are Balthier and Fran, Sky Pirates in the fictional fantasy world of Ivalice, where most of their adventures are happening.
For a short description, Balthier and Fran are sky Pirates, Balthier being the suave, British-accented and cocky Human, while his partner, Fran, is a Viera, a tall and lithe creature who are mysterious and odd as their trademark rabbit-like ears.
What makes them my favorite characters is that the way they stand-out is because of how these two work together in a sense that they are reminiscent to Han Solo and Chewbacca's partnership.
But anyway, I'm not going to talk about how much of a fan I am and describe them. I'm here to talk about how Balthier wins fans by his sharp looks and even sharper witty lines.
Just hearing Balthier's voice (mind you, he's voiced by a Brit!) and how every line he says to any of the characters exudes confidence makes him every bit more interesting, therefore creating a sort of magnetizing charm. (Great. Just what a fan girl would EXACTLY say about her favorite). His masculinity also redefines it in a sense that he doesn't have to show muscles or brawn to be masculine.
Anyway, if you don't believe me, just watch this short video of him
(Great! Just how a fan girl WOULD show it)
Monday, November 15, 2010
Miscommunication in our everyday lives...
S.A.P #1
Miscommunication happens when the speaker's message did not fully reach the listener's ear, and there fore might send a wrong message back, or the listener will decode the message in a wrong way, therefore will result in an argument or so...
Miscommunication happens to me more often than not because most of the time we don't speak clearly or we heard it wrong. I live with grandparents actually, and miscommunication happens a lot and I have to be patient.
There was one time yesterday when I was asking my grandmother what type of hair product is she using, but she only answered back by saying that I spray the hair product now on her hair. I never repeated the question anymore since I saw what the hair product is.
Another time happened when I was talking to my grandfather on his office. I asked him if he was going to pay for my tuition fee next semester, but he answered me by saying that my dad can't afford to pay big money again for my brother. The unconnected answer I got from him made me repeat the question again until he did answer me rightly, although he wasn't aware that he had misheard me. But of course, it's understandable when it comes to your grandparents when you talk to them, since they are somewhat impaired in hearing now and you have to be patient about it.
But it sometimes gets into your nerves when the one you're talking to is almost as old as you and still can't hear you, or perhaps isn't even listening to you.
One example was when I was asking my brother, who was in the living room while I was in the kitchen, about a part on the newest video we saw on YouTube that was so funny. But then I was surprised he answered me back by saying the we can watch the new funny video again on YouTube...
Even though I try my best in clearing my throat to speak clearly (and loudly) to the people in the house I live in, sometimes I wished they could hear or speak as clearly as possible, or else a wrongly heard message can lead to disastrous results.
Miscommunication happens when the speaker's message did not fully reach the listener's ear, and there fore might send a wrong message back, or the listener will decode the message in a wrong way, therefore will result in an argument or so...
Miscommunication happens to me more often than not because most of the time we don't speak clearly or we heard it wrong. I live with grandparents actually, and miscommunication happens a lot and I have to be patient.
There was one time yesterday when I was asking my grandmother what type of hair product is she using, but she only answered back by saying that I spray the hair product now on her hair. I never repeated the question anymore since I saw what the hair product is.
Another time happened when I was talking to my grandfather on his office. I asked him if he was going to pay for my tuition fee next semester, but he answered me by saying that my dad can't afford to pay big money again for my brother. The unconnected answer I got from him made me repeat the question again until he did answer me rightly, although he wasn't aware that he had misheard me. But of course, it's understandable when it comes to your grandparents when you talk to them, since they are somewhat impaired in hearing now and you have to be patient about it.
But it sometimes gets into your nerves when the one you're talking to is almost as old as you and still can't hear you, or perhaps isn't even listening to you.
One example was when I was asking my brother, who was in the living room while I was in the kitchen, about a part on the newest video we saw on YouTube that was so funny. But then I was surprised he answered me back by saying the we can watch the new funny video again on YouTube...
Even though I try my best in clearing my throat to speak clearly (and loudly) to the people in the house I live in, sometimes I wished they could hear or speak as clearly as possible, or else a wrongly heard message can lead to disastrous results.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Final Fantasy Mania! Can't get off my head, even!
Ever since the start of Semestral break, I couldn't stop exercising the thoughts of making a Fan Comic about Final Fantasy! And now that Sem break is over and with X-mas vacation only a few wishful weeks away, I finally said to myself, 'Why not?'
I chose to make a Fan Comic about Final Fantasy XII since this is the nearest Final Fantasy reference I have (my brother's playing it in his PS2 and I can't miss a single story episode of it!). Furthermore, FF-XII is actually, according to most die-hard players and videogame reviewers, the least popular FF franchise because it was a bit tad different compared from its predecessors, emphasizing on how very different the style of the storyline is and the characters having not enough ounce of Super 'oompf' factor in them--except the two Sky Piratical characters, Balthier and Fran, who are the only real stand-out characters in the FF-XII plot.
Anyhoo, even though it was deemed not the most popular game, the gameplay won over me and my brother. But these are not enough reasons for why I want to make a different story about FF-XII.
Since fans of the FF franchise thought FF-XII was not the greatest, I thought maybe a different story would make it the greatest! And also a very different heroic character would make the themes of FF-XII more promising than the young too-archetypal and static Vaan of the FF-XII!
the protagonist Vann of Final Fantasy XII
Princess Ashe (center); The ever-handy and clever duo Sky Pirates Balthier(left)and Fran(right) - major characters of Final Fantasy XII.
Final Fantasy isn't the first kind of Fan Comic I wanted to do since I was introduced to the world of gaming.
There was Devil May Cry
My plans for DMC were that I make two different stories: one is about Dante's untold teenage years (with Dante sporting the white hair-do, not from the latest DmC plot!) and about the mysterious woman named Bea and her connections to his father's death. The second would be about a mysterious man named Anthony Villert, whose duty is to rescue Dante (from a little after DMC 2 storyline) and escape from the depths of Hell when Dante went there to duke it out with Argosax the Chaos. Anthony is paired with the help from a new hero named Sigmund Cassius, an Immortal man with extensive knowledge of the Demon World, and together they travel to locate the long-lost portal that was used by Mundus himself when he plunged the world into a hellish nightmare to rule it 2xxx or so years ago.
Another work I've been doing is an original fiction entitled 'Bloody Klutzy'. This was influenced because of Twilight, but I'm not a fan of the juvenile fiction that many claim to be a number one work of literature today!
I made the idea of 'Bloody Klutzy' because I wanted to take paranormal, blood and teen-thriller themes in a more wackier, slanderous and upbeat way, make it more 'natural' and 'unnatural' all at the same time! (Good luck with that, though!)
Oh well, as for the makings of my Final Fantasy Fan Comic, I'm still designing the characters, the settings (a lot of research must be conducted!), the title and the story lines to make it totally superb than the last one.
Hope there's still some time to finish all of my Fan Comics and original fiction novel!
I chose to make a Fan Comic about Final Fantasy XII since this is the nearest Final Fantasy reference I have (my brother's playing it in his PS2 and I can't miss a single story episode of it!). Furthermore, FF-XII is actually, according to most die-hard players and videogame reviewers, the least popular FF franchise because it was a bit tad different compared from its predecessors, emphasizing on how very different the style of the storyline is and the characters having not enough ounce of Super 'oompf' factor in them--except the two Sky Piratical characters, Balthier and Fran, who are the only real stand-out characters in the FF-XII plot.
Anyhoo, even though it was deemed not the most popular game, the gameplay won over me and my brother. But these are not enough reasons for why I want to make a different story about FF-XII.
Since fans of the FF franchise thought FF-XII was not the greatest, I thought maybe a different story would make it the greatest! And also a very different heroic character would make the themes of FF-XII more promising than the young too-archetypal and static Vaan of the FF-XII!
the protagonist Vann of Final Fantasy XII
Princess Ashe (center); The ever-handy and clever duo Sky Pirates Balthier(left)and Fran(right) - major characters of Final Fantasy XII.
Final Fantasy isn't the first kind of Fan Comic I wanted to do since I was introduced to the world of gaming.
There was Devil May Cry
My plans for DMC were that I make two different stories: one is about Dante's untold teenage years (with Dante sporting the white hair-do, not from the latest DmC plot!) and about the mysterious woman named Bea and her connections to his father's death. The second would be about a mysterious man named Anthony Villert, whose duty is to rescue Dante (from a little after DMC 2 storyline) and escape from the depths of Hell when Dante went there to duke it out with Argosax the Chaos. Anthony is paired with the help from a new hero named Sigmund Cassius, an Immortal man with extensive knowledge of the Demon World, and together they travel to locate the long-lost portal that was used by Mundus himself when he plunged the world into a hellish nightmare to rule it 2xxx or so years ago.
Another work I've been doing is an original fiction entitled 'Bloody Klutzy'. This was influenced because of Twilight, but I'm not a fan of the juvenile fiction that many claim to be a number one work of literature today!
I made the idea of 'Bloody Klutzy' because I wanted to take paranormal, blood and teen-thriller themes in a more wackier, slanderous and upbeat way, make it more 'natural' and 'unnatural' all at the same time! (Good luck with that, though!)
Oh well, as for the makings of my Final Fantasy Fan Comic, I'm still designing the characters, the settings (a lot of research must be conducted!), the title and the story lines to make it totally superb than the last one.
Hope there's still some time to finish all of my Fan Comics and original fiction novel!
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