Coke Everyday

Billboards along EDSA and threads online carry the same message: Drink Coke Everyday!!!!!

Read this forum entry, this time against it!

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I drink a 2 liter Diet Coke everyday!!!
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Started by PeekaBoo on 02-18-2008 3:23 am
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I drink a 2 liter Diet Coke everyday!!!


Since I was 18 yrs old I have been drinking Diet Coke! I am now 34 and still drinking Diet Coke! 



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First of all, I don't think it's a good idea to pump your body system with two liters of any soda, whether diet or not and whatever the brand is. 

Secondly, there is a big difference between every day and everyday.

Everyday and every day are commonly confused in English. There's no difference in pronunciation, but using the wrong one when writing is a mistake in the everyday English you use every day.

Everyday

Everyday is an adjective that means commonplace, ordinary, or normal.

These shoes are great for everyday wear.

You shouldn't wear an everyday outfit to the wedding.

Don't use the everyday dishes - it's a special occasion.


Every day

Every day means "each day."

I go to the park every day

I have to work every day this week except Friday

Every day I feel a little better

The Bottom Line

Everyday is a single word and is an adjective, so it's the one that is used in front of a noun to describe something as normal or commonplace. Every day is an adjective (every) plus a noun (day), and it means each day.

What's In a Name (Of a Carenderia in Leyte)

In Tacloban, Leyte, just off the airport, this eatery stands proudly -- bearing a name that no straight man would dare to use. Can someone please tell the owner what M 2 M means?

The Pope on Facebook

Pope welcomes Facebook, but cautions, using antiquated words.

Trust Benedict to pretend that he understands the new reality by using online jargon like social networking sites and digital divide. His ignorance shows when he used labels appropriate eons ago like marginalize and obsessive.

Here is the feed from Associated Press:


VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace can foster friendships and understanding, but warns they also can isolate people and marginalize others.

Benedict urged a culture of online respect in his annual message Friday for the World Day of Communications.  Benedict welcomes as a "gift" new technologies such as social networking sites, saying they respond to the "fundamental desire" of people to communicate.

But he also warns that "obsessive" virtual socializing can isolate people from real interaction and deepen the digital divide by excluding those already marginalized.  He urges producers to ensure that the content respects human dignity and the "goodness and intimacy of human sexuality.

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Obsessive is the adjective form of ob·ses·sion (əb-sěsh'ən, ŏb-) which means  compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety, or a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

Perhaps the Pope does not understand that virtual socializing is about connecting with friends and establishing connections. What is unreasonable about that?

Yeah, I know I am just ranting. I am just deeply disappointed that the Vatican refuses to accept that its moral framework is irrelevant to the world today. The Church needs a new "eye" to see today's reality.

Okay, it is not about grammar and word usage, it is about obstinacy.

Oh For the Love of A Grammar, Use A Full Stop!

The sign says: Whose are these?

My libido was boiling with excitement. A bastard friend (dude, I'm going to destroy your tribe for doing this to me hehehe) asked me to initiate a hook-up with this blogger. Apparently, he is the superstar of a blog community because of his brilliant writing. It seems people there (in that community) are pushing this blogger to publish his journal entries. My friend said, "Rain, you would love this guy. He is so cute, good-looking, and a brilliant writer etc etc etc." So, just imagine my alcohol-induced horny self thinking of a new possibility! I opened his blog entry called random thoughts. I could not get past the second sentence. I passed out.

Here is a sample from Enzo_Patrick

Its been two weeks since I was able to update my so called official blog over the information superhighway. Just these weekend, I found myself strolling in the mall, alone, yes you heard me write, ALONE!

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1. I can overlook the lack of punctuations, even if the errors irritate my bowels. What makes someone so lazy that he can't spend a fraction of a second to put an apostrophe in It's and a hyphen in so-called. And yet, he placed a comma where it does not belong - between mall and alone. For me, a comma out of place feels like a wedgie in the butt.

2. I am willing to overlook errors in the use of pronouns. I realize that if I will make pronoun usage as basis for dating a guy, I will grow old a virgin. Just for the record, it should be THIS WEEKEND.

3. But careless word usage? That can't be forgiven. "You heard me write?" As opposed to what? You heard me rong? First of all, you avoid using the word heard when referring to a written word. People can't hear you; they read you. Second, oh for the love of a keyboard, get it RIGHT!

Also, the last person I know who used the term information highway was Princess Diana.

Queer Use of Same-Gender

photo grabbed from the blog source

My friend Jerry pointed me to an entry by Twisted Tomato which uses the term same-gender: A Bit Of Political Philosophy Of A Same-Gender Relationship. Jerry asked about the history of the term and why it is now used as a substitute to same-sex.

This is an example of terms created as a form of protest. The term “homosexual” became so loaded with biases and prejudices so advocates came up with a label-free phrase “same-sex”. However, same-sex was seen as an imposition by white, gay activists who alienated the gay, black communities.

Same gender loving, or SGL is a term coined for African American use by activist Cleo Manago, particularly in the African-American community. It emerged in the early 1990s and is often used by those who prefer to distance themselves from terms that they see as associated with "white-dominated" lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities. For the term discreet, they use down-low, for the term outed, they remained with OPEN.

Technically though, gender refers to culture-related roles of being male or female, while sex comprises the biological attributes of being man and woman.

Thus, there are relationships which are both same-sex and same-gender, such is the case of our blogger and his husband Doc M.

There are relationships which are same-sex but not same-gender because the partners play respective roles of being male and female. Ellen de G and Portia for example have a same-sex marriage (both of them have vaginas) but do not have a same-gender relationship because Ellen portrays a male role while Portia assumes the female attributes, as defined by culture.

There are also gay relationships which are same-gender but not same-sex. My friend Jimmy, one of the most complex individuals thrown to the cosmos is biologically a woman as he has a vagina. But since teenager, Jimmy opted to be a tomboy and assumed a male identity. Never call Jimmy by his real name Judith Ann or there will be blood. But Jimmy swings both ways and is now living-in with a discreet bi Joel, both of them play the male roles. So, they have a same-gender but not same-sex relationship.

Truth is, never allow words and terms to define your relationships. Define them according to your wishes, and if the world is confused, let the world invent new words to label them.

alledgedly? Richard and Aljur

STARMOMETER scoops on the Richard-Aljur incident, but forgets correct spelling and right grammar.

1. "Right after the news came out about the alledgedly near-fight between Kapuso stars Richard Gutierrez and Aljur Abrenica at the Fiamma bar last October 17, Richard’s camp sent PEP a statement disproving the report."

a. drop the d and the ly - the correct term is alleged. The term near-fight acts as a NOUN, thus the word describing it should be an adjective (alleged), not an adverb (allegedly).

2. “Unfortunately, however, a star like Mr. Aljur Abrenica, an acquaintance, does not seem to understand that stars need space too, and barging in on our table unexpectedly, sitting down uninvited, and partaking of the drinks freely, does not speak well of a person’s social graces."

(quoted from Richard camp's text message to PEP)

For all the money he earns, Richard can't afford to hire a decent writer. In an attempt to create a compound-complex sentence, the writer loses perspective. The second independent clause uses gerund as subjects: barging in, sitting down and partaking of. Hence, the subject being plural, the verb should be DO not speak well....

Barging in means intruding rudely. To barge in unexpectedly is clearly redundant, because intrusion by its nature is always unexpected. You don't say to your mother, "Mom, we are expecting an intruder tonight, so please prepare."

Lastly, it is best to be consistent when using parallels: barging in UNEXPECTEDLY, sitting down UNINVITED (?) and partaking FREELY; two adverbs and one adjective - not consistent.