8/18/2013

Ganito Ka Rin Ba Mag-ENGLISH? (MODIFICATION)

October 1996
To Marjie,
I am not surprised why Dennis left you. The only reason I can think of is because you’re fat. Before, I thought Dennis would only us me as his toy. As time goes by, I realized that he can’t stand being with you anymore. It is because you’re calling him all the time and trying to control his life.
He always says that he’s ashamed when he’s with you because you are very, very fat. He’s asking you to exercise but you’re not listening to him. At first I thought, you are the prettiest girl he knew. Who do you think you are?

Even though you think you have a beautiful face, you don’t have the right to call me names infront of Dennis or even when Dennis is not around. Since you started calling me different names, I would like to call you PIG, FAT, OBESE, OVERWEIGHT and UGLY SHAPED girl. Shame on your body which is similar to that of a WHALE SHARK!
You can’t blame Dennis for choosing me over you, because I am sexier that you are.
You say that I have bad breath but between the two of us, who does Dennis want to kiss? It’s me right.
Love,
The sexiest girl of D. M.
P.S.
REACTION

My head really ached after reading this text, kidding. This letter shows that everyone must study English very well and how to write it seriously so that we may not come up to this kind of English grammar. I felt difficulty of reading the original text. It’s harder to translate wrong English grammar to correct one than to translate a Tagalog Version to English one. When you first read the letter you won’t really understand it, but if you read it again and again with full of feelings, you can understand the emotion of the writer while she was writing the letter. While I was reading the text, the words that come up to my mouth were “What?” and “Huh?”, then after reading it I said, “Ahhhh”. I told myself that if I don’t focus on my English subject very much, this may also happen to me. That’s why everyone must follow ENGLISH SPEAKING (ESP) so that our friendly letter will not be published like this.

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