APHORISMS

APHORISM: A SHORT, POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE OR CLEVER OBSERVATION OR A GENERAL TRUTH; ADAGE

1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.

2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

3. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you probably don’t have any sense at all.

4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.

5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.

6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night.

7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.

10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.

11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.

12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM.. Like this: It could be a right number.

13. No one ever says ‘It’s only a game.’ when their team is winning.

14. I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.

15. Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it.

16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )

18. Money can’t buy happiness — but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Hyundai.

19. After 50, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!!

20. Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don’t mind. And the one’s that mind, don’t matter.

 

The Lost Generation

Brilliant! An ad by the AARP.

 

Burnham Park has WiFi - Yey!

I guess they’re catching up. The city of Baguio has announced that the famous park has launched its own WiFi connection. This is to boosts the tourism potential of the city as a hub for technology. Here’s the story from Ernie Olson of Sun.Star Baguio.

 

History - Pinoys help organize UFW

Although Cesar Chavez was known to have championed farm workers in America and later became the founder of the United Farm Workers it is also fitting to remember that a number of Filipinos were instrumental in the creation of the most important labor movement in American history.

Here’s an interesting story told by one of the first Filipinos to join the 1965 strike. He was a Filipino farmer who helped organize and unify latino and filipino farm workers into a formidable union.

To name these labor union pioneers and leaders is also to honor their contributions and their legacy. I only named a few, those that I can find in public records, surely there are many more out there.

1. Ben Gines
2. Pete Manuel
3. Larry Itliong
4. Andy Imutan
5. Pete Velasco

 

The philosophy of relationship

For the past two days major news networks here in the US were reporting that the secret to a happy relationship is for a woman to marry an ugly mate or a homely husband. Good for the men because they get to marry attractive women and be happy about it.

FoxNews.com reports that:

The best marriages are those where women marry men who are less attractive than themselves, research has found. Read more.

More than a decade ago this was seen by Andrew E. He wrote a rap about this and it became a hit in the Philippines. The Filipinos already knew that it was plausible and even possible that a relationship is based on looks. To review that philosophical revelation here is his thesis:

Kaya’t para lumigaya ang iyong buhay
Humanap ka ng pangit at ibigin mong tunay
At kung hindi, sige ka puso mo’y mabibiyak
Mahiwalay man ang pangit hindi ka iiyak ‘di ba ?

It has a catchy beat, too. Here’s the rest of the lyrics.

 

Oil and society

The cartoons and illustrations say it all.

 

 

Communication Arts, Linguistics and Butsekik

[For Pinoy's Use Also]

I studied Linguistics (it’s a graduate school thing) and was briefly drawn to it for its sheer complexity. Unfortunately, my simple mind could not keep up plus na-brain freeze ako sa kalagitnaan ng pag-iintindi sa mga konsepto. Buti nga walang nose bleeding, eh.

Questions

1. Can anyone tell me what are the underlying universals in this linguistic form?
2. How does all the fields of linguistic come to play in this song?
3. What theoretical occurrence can be predicted from this as derived from an emerging framework?

Related Literature

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It endeavours to answer the question–what is language and how is represented in the mind? Linguists focus on describing and explaining language and are not concerned with the prescriptive rules of the language (ie., do not split infinitives).

The underlying goal of the linguist is to try to discover the universals concerning language. That is, what are the common elements of all languages. The linguist then tries to place these elements in a theoretical framework that will describe all languages and also predict what can not occur in a language.

 

Communication Arts and Ken Lee

My college classmates were passing this video around cyberspace and I have got to pass it around, too.

Many are saying that English is a strange language. But for many, the language is their ticket to fame. In my recent post, I mentioned that the average Filipino student will have been exposed to the English language and its technicalities for 10 years. We are lucky to have an L3 (3rd Language). Because of their skill in understanding English they have developed their own language.

If we would like to intellectualize this the concept would be derived from Communicative Competence.

Communicative Competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and discussed and redefined by many authors. Hymes’ original idea was that speakers of a language have to have more than grammatical competence in order to be able communicate effectively in a language; they also need to know how language is used by members of a speech community to accomplish their purposes. (Source)

Of course, the grammar were way off but they did accomplish their purpose. They’re in YouTube and are stars - in their own right.

You might want to check out the older post here.

 

Communication Arts

Note: Some portions of this post are in Filipino

Filipinos can pride themselves to over-learning the English language. Exposure to the language started in the first grade and ends about the third year of college, depending on what course one is taking. The average Filipino student will be taught, repeatedly, the art of communicating in English for 12 years. So why are we so messed up linguistically?

Proof?

PS - Since this guy was on drugs, he doesn’t count but I just wanted to put it in. It’s funny.

 

The message

Most of us know John 3:16 as the most quoted verse in the Bible.  It is the central theme of the Christianity.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

There are two sides to the verse: your side and God’s side.

God’s Side

• …so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son
• …won’t allow you to perish
• …will give you eternal life

Our Side

• Believe

Just believe… very simple.