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Posts Tagged ‘UP’
The originality of thought
10 Jan 2010
It really is a hard thing to come up with something original these days. That proverbial bucket in the sea of knowledge is a constant bitching reminder that no matter how much you read and learn, you won’t be [...]
More idiot than savant
In: Education
7 Jan 2010Part of the tasks of descriptive linguistics is to seek out patterns which shouldn’t be that much of an effort since humans are said to be innately equipped with capacities to seek out patterns. And the task seems to be easier with analytic languages like English where logic is tied to word order.
Some people are [...]
On the NIP cat killer issue
17 Apr 2009April has been quite the month for Internet memes. Latest issue to hit my relevant sphere – the NIP cat killer.
Short version: A student at the NIP of UP Diliman murdered a sort of college pet cat all because he has a seething hatred for the species. Story leaked to the Internet. Kid even posted [...]
KAISA as UP’s ‘change’?
28 Feb 2009I had an interesting discussion with my English majors last Thursday in a discussion on the language of politics. Hot off the USC elections, the group in charge made references to the parties and their campaign tactics. It was interesting how they dissected the language and the context and probed the factors that may have [...]
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- Tags: Elections, Philippines, STAND-UP, University, UP, USC
Missed iBlog4 for this
In: Education
28 Apr 2008UP Diliman and its various colleges held recognition rites and the commencement exercise over the weekend. I really wanted to go to iBlog4 but, alas, I was issued a memo by the college that I’d be one of the emcees for CAL’s recognition rites.
As a spin made by the organizers, they got every department’s [...]
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- Tags: College, UP
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