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I am inviting Forum members to team up with me in doing My Media English Watch. This way, we can further widen this Forum’s dragnet for bad or questionable English usage in both the print media and broadcast media, thus giving more teeth to our campaign to encourage them to continuously improve their English. All you need to do is pinpoint every serious English misuse you encounter while reading your favorite newspaper or viewing your favorite network or cable TV programs. Just tell me about the English misuse and I will do a grammar critique of it.
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Errant English in two Metro Manila newspapers critiqued
Fellow good English advocate Gerry Gelacio—he joined the Forum as a member recently—sent in last April 9 the following critiques of errant media English (all italicizations mine):
1. From “Museo Orlina: Glass, Light, Magic” by Ida Anita Q. del Mundo in The Philippine Starweek, December 15, 2013 issue:
Lead sentence: “Glass is magical... It is a very strong material, at the same time it is fragile,” imminent glass sculptor Ramon Orlina muses.
Error: The writer should have used “eminent” instead of “imminent.”
(Note: Bryan A. Garner, in his book Modern American Usage, says that confusing “imminent” with “eminent” is a common error.)
2. Headline from the tabloid Bulgar, April 3, 2014 issue:
WARRANT KINA ENRILE, BONG, JINGGOY, NEXT
Comment: I know who Enrile, Bong, and Jinggoy are. But I don’t know who “NEXT” is.
The headline should have been:
NEXT: WARRANT KINA ENRILE, BONG, JINGGOY
(Note to Gerry: For your subsequent media English critiques, feel free to post them directly to the My Media English Watch discussion board. Just provide a suitable descriptive title for each new posting.)
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