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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355236 [Title] => Watch your language! [Summary] => I was on my way out the door to go to work when I heard my kids and their playmates discussing different expressions they had heard in school and on TV. My eight-year-old son Donny was trying to explain why words like, "What the ," "darn," "sh_t," "stupid," and "shut up" are not words that should be said by anyone, most especially children. So I tried to give them my two cents worth, while being very conscious not to sound too preachy.
This is what I told them:
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528869 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260536 [Title] => Word play [Summary] => How do you spell "rostrum"? our editor wanted to know. That, of course, was a trick question, so I volunteered, Rustom...as in Padilla? Wrong answer, he said, and showed me what came in by way of caption to a photo: "Roast room."
Some people call them bloopers, a mangling of the language, but some people take pains coming up with "alternative" spellings and meanings. Either way, theyre always good for a good laugh.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259685 [Title] => Word play [Summary] => How do you spell "rostrum"? our editor wanted to know. That, of course, was a trick question, so I volunteered, Rustom...as in Padilla? Wrong answer, he said, and showed me what came in by way of caption to a photo: "Roast room."
Some people call them bloopers, a mangling of the language, but some people take pains coming up with "alternative" spellings and meanings. Either way, theyre always good for a good laugh.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) ) )
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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355236 [Title] => Watch your language! [Summary] => I was on my way out the door to go to work when I heard my kids and their playmates discussing different expressions they had heard in school and on TV. My eight-year-old son Donny was trying to explain why words like, "What the ," "darn," "sh_t," "stupid," and "shut up" are not words that should be said by anyone, most especially children. So I tried to give them my two cents worth, while being very conscious not to sound too preachy.
This is what I told them:
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134806 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528869 [AuthorName] => MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260536 [Title] => Word play [Summary] => How do you spell "rostrum"? our editor wanted to know. That, of course, was a trick question, so I volunteered, Rustom...as in Padilla? Wrong answer, he said, and showed me what came in by way of caption to a photo: "Roast room."
Some people call them bloopers, a mangling of the language, but some people take pains coming up with "alternative" spellings and meanings. Either way, theyre always good for a good laugh.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259685 [Title] => Word play [Summary] => How do you spell "rostrum"? our editor wanted to know. That, of course, was a trick question, so I volunteered, Rustom...as in Padilla? Wrong answer, he said, and showed me what came in by way of caption to a photo: "Roast room."
Some people call them bloopers, a mangling of the language, but some people take pains coming up with "alternative" spellings and meanings. Either way, theyre always good for a good laugh.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) ) )
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By MOMMY TALK By Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan | August 29, 2006 - 12:00am
By NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit | August 8, 2004 - 12:00am
By NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit | August 1, 2004 - 12:00am
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