Friday, February 27, 2009 2/27/2009 01:23:00 PM
lesson # 5--- speech norms
Right.... i think i offend a lot of people unknowingly... although some i know, i think i need to read more books to brush up my english and how i deliver my intentions nice and sweet
But i would like to take this chance to say sorry to everyone i've offended and to ask for forgiveness. To forgive and correct me that is.
i thought it's all a joke but it turned out to be an insult to some people. They may be angry and feel that why do i speak without filtering it first. But they just kept quiet. Whereas me, i would continue yakking away, ballooning my head and thinking that i'm funny....when it's not.
i guess i rather keep quiet once more. Over the years, i really kept to myself, watching and laughing along with my group of friends. But i rarely spoke....
only like in jc, among my close friends, and jcu friends, i have opened up more.
too much and too fast, i became air-headed... (if there's such word) so full of myself that i forgot what the "Do's and Don't's" are... or "what to say or not to say".....
of course, while i speak, i observe people's facial expression. They had those awkward looks, but i had to finish whati said...they looked at me as if i would speak more and with more interesting stories, but i didn't.
i may seems like someone who is sociable, who can speak well. but all shells you see of me are empty... i may be very energetic when i first met the person, or talk to someone whom i had not seen for a long time.... but after a while, when i cant find the common topic between us to talk about, i stopped... we became strangers again....sigh....
so what is speech norms... it is kind of hard to define here since i dun talk much in reality.... and even when i joke, i joke with no intelligence......
perhaps, knowing what to say and what not to say, be humourous, pick at special terms and make an intelligent joke out of it? able to talk alot on a topic...that means knowing a lot of general knowledge (that i lack)......... etc...