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Badly Written, Badly Spoken / Re: Poster complaining about noisy laundry machine

« on: June 14, 2009, 08:29:17 PM »

The sign should simply say:

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Laundry Hours:
6am-6pm

For your strict compliance.
-Management/Owner
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As for improving our current state of affair, I'm thinking English should be promoted to the public not as an elitist language, but one that the masses should and could use.  It all starts with learning how to think in English, rather than thinking in your local dialect then translating. So how does one do that? At a young age perhaps? Then it all boils down to that sorry-excuse-for-a-textbook the DepEd has been spreading around.

Ciao!

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Badly Written, Badly Spoken / Re: So many serious grammar errors in six local textbooks teaching English!

« on: June 14, 2009, 08:05:49 PM »

Simply horrible.

On February 2, 2009 a department official said in an article in the Inquirer that these books were passed by an editorial board from the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) and “passed with flying colors a rigid, multistage screening process, going through four areas of evaluation.”

Obviously, grammar and content were not included in the evaluation.

I wonder what these AdMU board members have to say.