Quit frontin’ wid dat call center voice

I do not quite know how to take a position on the quality of English language speakers here in the Philippines. One of my professors have always posed that question during and after classes. He has this observation that Filipino English speakers nowadays have better...

Buzzard: “Emo” is a misspelled bird

Emo. I have noticed in a few blogs (college students from UP, Christ, the humanity!) the use of emo to describe the state of angst. Emo, as a word (disputed as clipped form of “emotional” or “emotionally-driven hardcore punk”), came from its...

Critical discourse analysis and blogging

Hmm… Why have I not thought about it? Okay. I have graduate with a BA in English Studies: Language from UP focusing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an attempt to specialization. A few professors thought (I hope they still think) that my undergraduate...