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Use and Misuse / "Owner-Type Jeep" and "Bureau of Fire Protection"
« on: October 26, 2010, 08:35:30 PM »
Hi Joe,
I'm Roger Posadas, a Professor at the Technology Management Center in U.P. Diliman, who has just registered in your English Forum. There are two questionable Filipino uses of English that have been vexing me for a long time:
1. The prevalent use of the term "owner-type jeep" when the simple term "jeep" will suffice. Besides, I don't know of any jeep that has no owner.
2. The use of "Bureau of Fire Protection" by the formerly named Fire Department. The units of this Bureau are supposed to protect us from fire and not to protect the fire as its name implies. This Bureau should change its name to "Bureau of Fire Control."
May I know your comments on these two Filipino English oddities?
Roger Posadas
I'm Roger Posadas, a Professor at the Technology Management Center in U.P. Diliman, who has just registered in your English Forum. There are two questionable Filipino uses of English that have been vexing me for a long time:
1. The prevalent use of the term "owner-type jeep" when the simple term "jeep" will suffice. Besides, I don't know of any jeep that has no owner.
2. The use of "Bureau of Fire Protection" by the formerly named Fire Department. The units of this Bureau are supposed to protect us from fire and not to protect the fire as its name implies. This Bureau should change its name to "Bureau of Fire Control."
May I know your comments on these two Filipino English oddities?
Roger Posadas