Be wary now when you use such metaphors and similes as Japan’s professional nursing tests will be “a walk in the park,” “Metro Manila’s tall buildings seem like...the entombed frustrations of 8 million residents,” and “Aquino won’t ax Puno yet.” You may have the best of intentions and may get such a pleasurable high in doing so, but you just might misinform, mislead, or rile your readers or listeners. This is the point that I’m hammering on in my media English watch this week: it’s much more preferable to be plainspoken but correct than to be figuratively creative but wrong.
Read “Flawed semantics in the reportage of two of the major broadsheets” in the Forum now!
