Malam tadi ,
ibu bawak balik buku Reader's Digest .
then , suroh aku bace . maybe muke aku nampak boring sangat kott .
hahaa . macam ape yang aku tengah rase waktu cuti neh .
mase tengah sibuk membace ,
jumpe lah article bertajuk SAVE OUR VOWELS !!!
weehehe . suke tajuk macam tu .
save something for the sake of goodness . kan bagos .
Save the Mother Earth for instance , or that Be Green thingy .
or Save the Trees , Recycle , Stop Polluting .etc
I'm sorry Mama Earth, I might have pollute you just like the other .
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uhm , kembali kepade tajuk .
SAVE OUR VOWELS !
where have they all gone ?
All over the planet , they are disappearing . Scientists might have worried to death . It might not be a sign of the end of the world but , it might be THE END OF VOWELS USAGE !
goshh , i'm not talking about vanishing frog . i am talking about absent vowels . i got a message the other day that said , "Mt @ 3rd st crnr @ 12" , signed "QT." What did it mean? A young text-savvy person in the office told me that QT means 'cutie' , and translated: "An attractive young woman wants to meet you at the corner of Third Street at noon ."
i turned up at the designated spot and found a large insurance salesman called Quentin who used his body odour as a lethal weapon . i narrowly avoided purchasing ten-year coverage against being kicked to death by emus . curiously, there were no policies available against assault by insurance agents . one day i'll get a message from a QT who is actually a Cutie . But i wont take the risk . Quentin is out there .
- nuri vitachi
bahagian yang bawah ni pun masih lagi dari artikel yang same . kadang kadang kelakar jugak bace artikel macam ni .
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the following week i was at a private club when Hong Kong banker named David told me he had encountered a man who pronounced his name Choong, but spelt in C-H-N-G . "there cant be many names with no vowels in them, " he said .
vowels are disappearing at high speed among businesses , too . ever wondered what happen to Reebok , the sportwear firm ? it's still around but has renamed itself to Rbk . Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC .
the loss-of-vowels ailment spread to phone maker Motorola, which launched a phone called Razor , spelt RAZR . this was followed by the ROKR , the SLVR and the PEBL . dont they want to change Motorola to MTRLA for the sake of consistency ? could someone suggest that to be the company's boss Greg Brown, or he is now Grg Brwn ?
i've read articles saying that the no-vowels trend is caused by companies trying to give their products the flavour of the trendy shorthand spelling favoured by young people . the real reason is often more mundane . Flickr , one of the most busiest websites on the internet , was set up by people who wanted the name Flicker , but too slow to register that word and too uncreative to find an alternative .
incidentally , any reader been to that tiny town in the dusty mountain of California called Zzyzx ? a quack named Curtis Howe Springer founded it as a health spa and called it Zzyzx because he thought it sounded different . yeahh , different which caused the business to fail .
older readers may recall the computer game Zzyzzyxx , launched in 1982 . it got rave reviews from critics but flopped in the stores . fans did not know how to ask for it . they must have been going to shops and saying: "do you have a game called z, ziz, zy, er, um, ah , never mind , just give me Pac Man ."
James Gleick's book Faster has been issued in paperback , now re-titled FSTR . but the publishers' revision is half-hearted , with the main text of the book STILL containing vowels . why not go to the whole hog ? u cn stll rd ths wtht vwls. On the other hand , just be aware that vowels-free words can be interpreted in various ways .
hahaa . saye pun mengaku ade buat salah laku menghilangkan huruf vokal dengan sengaje . tapi buat entri nie , harap aku da tules sebaek buleh tanpe menggunekan singkatan yang mengakibatkan aku juge diserang loss-of-vowels ailment tu , HAHAA .
** tapi at least singkatan aku mase texting dengan kawan kawan takde lah ketare sangat kott .ade mase nye enjoy jugak tules panjang berjela . macam nie , wlaupun penat !
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