Goodnight
Goonight, fair night; adieu,adieu
May the moon shine in pale light unto pale faces
That watch upon thee with such intent
Bestow upon them thine gift of sleep
And let them dream dreams of flying carpets and talking goats,
Singing teapots and dancing dolls
Preserve in their sleep their fragile innocence
Goodnight, fair night; adieu, adieu
For i say not farewell but goodnight
And morrow shall i grace these lands with my presence
Fill the lands with golden dew and sweet smells
Refreshed,renewed
Goodnight, fair night, adieu,adieu
Eh...no comment. It was crap, but i hope it's understandable. Eh, whatever...
I was talking to Ayane earlier, and she told me to go visit her. I finally did, hours later, and began reading. Or rather, attempted to read. I was utterly disgusted to find my best friend, a fairly fluent English speaker, using words such as,"Luk very weakk". I blamed it on human error, a typo maybe. Even I, as great as i claim myself to be, i make typos and spelling errors frequently. The load of people i know use phrases like "hiie" and the like. Slang. Personally, I don't mind it so much. But it gets a little infuriating to read a blog which you are certain is in English, but instead feel like smashing the computer screen in because it says, "I lyk, had lyk, a big fight w/ sum grrlfrns 2 dai, n i oso lost mai f8. I lyk, jst h8 it!" I came across a ceratin blog like that and nearly lost it. Maybe their spoken English is perfect, I don't know, but seriously, you don't expect people like me to understand,do you? Majority of the people i know had horrendous English, and speak their Mother Tongue often, even during English class. When i remark with the usual smartass tone," Apparently, it seems so", the usual response I received is either "huh?" or "wtf???". Sometimes they pretend not to understand, or miraculously go deaf everytime i open my mouth. I admit, because English is the predominating language in my household, my Mother Tongue is rather poorly. But i get by. I'm not getting all huffy and all-mighty just because I score better than most in my English tests, I'm just voicing my views rather..nicely on the way teenagers are using the English language nowadays. Even if I'm text-messaging someone,or rather SMSing, I use proper English, spelling and all. "You","You're",etc the entire thing in proper spelling.I understand that some do not have a very strong vocabulary, but at least they try to use complete and proper words.(though on several occasions, misspellings)I should know. I have a good friend of that nature. It's hard to communicate sometimes, seeing as I don't speak Mandarin. He doesn't speak Malay either, so either way, there's a major language barriar. And that's not very nice now, is it? Plus, if you keep babbling away in your Mother Tongue, others who don't speak it may assume you were gossiping about them, insulting them, making them feel uncomfortable and makes you look like a racist. We're supposed to be working towards a discrimination-free world right?
Goonight, fair night; adieu,adieu
May the moon shine in pale light unto pale faces
That watch upon thee with such intent
Bestow upon them thine gift of sleep
And let them dream dreams of flying carpets and talking goats,
Singing teapots and dancing dolls
Preserve in their sleep their fragile innocence
Goodnight, fair night; adieu, adieu
For i say not farewell but goodnight
And morrow shall i grace these lands with my presence
Fill the lands with golden dew and sweet smells
Refreshed,renewed
Goodnight, fair night, adieu,adieu
Eh...no comment. It was crap, but i hope it's understandable. Eh, whatever...
I was talking to Ayane earlier, and she told me to go visit her. I finally did, hours later, and began reading. Or rather, attempted to read. I was utterly disgusted to find my best friend, a fairly fluent English speaker, using words such as,"Luk very weakk". I blamed it on human error, a typo maybe. Even I, as great as i claim myself to be, i make typos and spelling errors frequently. The load of people i know use phrases like "hiie" and the like. Slang. Personally, I don't mind it so much. But it gets a little infuriating to read a blog which you are certain is in English, but instead feel like smashing the computer screen in because it says, "I lyk, had lyk, a big fight w/ sum grrlfrns 2 dai, n i oso lost mai f8. I lyk, jst h8 it!" I came across a ceratin blog like that and nearly lost it. Maybe their spoken English is perfect, I don't know, but seriously, you don't expect people like me to understand,do you? Majority of the people i know had horrendous English, and speak their Mother Tongue often, even during English class. When i remark with the usual smartass tone," Apparently, it seems so", the usual response I received is either "huh?" or "wtf???". Sometimes they pretend not to understand, or miraculously go deaf everytime i open my mouth. I admit, because English is the predominating language in my household, my Mother Tongue is rather poorly. But i get by. I'm not getting all huffy and all-mighty just because I score better than most in my English tests, I'm just voicing my views rather..nicely on the way teenagers are using the English language nowadays. Even if I'm text-messaging someone,or rather SMSing, I use proper English, spelling and all. "You","You're",etc the entire thing in proper spelling.I understand that some do not have a very strong vocabulary, but at least they try to use complete and proper words.(though on several occasions, misspellings)I should know. I have a good friend of that nature. It's hard to communicate sometimes, seeing as I don't speak Mandarin. He doesn't speak Malay either, so either way, there's a major language barriar. And that's not very nice now, is it? Plus, if you keep babbling away in your Mother Tongue, others who don't speak it may assume you were gossiping about them, insulting them, making them feel uncomfortable and makes you look like a racist. We're supposed to be working towards a discrimination-free world right?
