And you all know how I hate sloppy writing. So this is going to be about two things:

1. How Filipinos seem to find the use of elipsis so annoyingly convenient. Here's an example:

eto... i have a list pero... baka yung iba di mag-agree dahil known cla as terror... sa kas1... si sir atoy sa math... si ma'am cherry ramos!!! (sa lb... si sir at si ma'am lawas! the best!) sa stat... si sir dennis (lalo na sa 34 namen... or siguro maganda lang experience ng group namen sa kanya), si ma'am tina...miss ko na siya... si sir joyce (naliwanagan ako sa 21 ko... pero 31... sana di ako mawala!!!) sa commIII... nalimutan ko na name niya... pero super bait...may family na siya pero maganda pa rin... si ma'am... wait...sorry nalimutan ko na talaga siya... basta. sa french... si madam chan! sa intsik... si sir bata...! da best! sino pa?...

Now, how is that acceptable? To me, the elipsis is a crutch for the fact that you cannot start and complete a sentence, or that you want to fill in the gaps with punctuation (what other ridiculous reason can you think of?). And this writing should have been taught out in high school, not found here at the college level.

2. And then, there's the problem of dependent clauses.

At least that’s Paolo’s assessment of what went wrong about his dear friend’s interracial union on the bits and pieces she confided to him in the last two months when Miriam returned to the country to be a guest co-host in the final week of GMA 7’s Extra Challenge.

Whew! I ran out of breath reading that damn thing. Where are the editors when you need one?

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