Friday, March 22, 2013

A Second Post needs to Dwell on Duality

Some people believe that the Illuminati and Freemasons have a thing for duality and the notion of a double personality. It is said that they brainwash poor people in the ranks of artists to create human zombies that have two personality of which can interchange at the handler's will. This is all too scary to write so I will stop now because I don't want to have nightmares.

Oh no... Please no...

Now, while my inner self tries to survive against a faceless monster who can kill me by just looking at me, let's go through some better aspects of duality that can actually contribute to my merits as a student. this duality involves the usage of English, whereas the typical human being can opt to use British English or American English. While we are free to choose between the two, us Malaysians are usually more proficient with British English, since that is the Received Language here, and because the Brits gave birth to our syllabus. 

Well, i'm here to tell you that our perceived affiliation to the British English is merely a myth since most of us wouldn't really know the difference between the American and British English, and this also includes me. I wouldn't really know all the difference between the two, and if I did I wouldn't Google the relevant necessary info for this post just now. You DID NOT read that Google part. 

So let's get started! :D

What is the difference between 'practice' and 'practise'? Now, 'practice' is a noun, while 'practise' is a verb, and both comply with the British English standards. The same could also be said for 'advise' and 'advice'... And now i just realised this has nothing to do with the differences between American and British English. 

I am.. a failure...

Still, if you paid attention, I wrote 'realise' up there, not 'realize'. Which do you think is British, and which is American? Well, one of the easiest ways to differ the two is through the usage of either 's' or 'z'. British uses 's', like organisation, realise, etc. while Americans use 'z', such as organization, realize, etc. 

Now, if you were attentive enough you can also see that there is a pattern here in writing better English. 

Firstly, if you ever get confused about the spelling of a word, whether it uses a 'c' or an 's', understand that the difference is not between American and british, but the difference is it being a noun or a verb. the one using 'c' is a noun (advice, practice), and the 's' is a verb (advise, practise), and both are British.

Example:

1. His advice was fantastic. (noun)
2. He advises me to put on makeup. (verb)

Secondly, if the confusion revolves around the use of either 's' or 'z', the difference is whether it is Brit or American, where 's' is used for British and 'z' for Americans.

With these two knowledge of linguistic duality in mind, i hope that every reader can be a better communicator and writer. if not, you can always kill yourself because i won't be the one doing it for you, but this has nothing to do with the post, and it brings no direct relation to any type of rational thinking of humans from all ages, and i'm not writing this to simply make the post look longerrrrrrrrr yayyyyyyy~~~

Peace out~ and please refrain yourselves from being brainwashed by the media.

5 comments:

  1. where is your article for saturday n sunday? weekdays update only aaaa???

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  2. thank you farris.. more please.. haha

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  3. the first part which the part you wrote about faceless monster totally freak me out just by imagining it. Ahaha..but then "ohh...it's not a scary blog" and the next thing i said was "Interesting---so true--- =D

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