The P's and the F's

Signing on

The title has something to do on the last Binibining Pilipinas pageant wherein a candidate who stammered her way through the question and answer portion, who bagged the Bb. Pilipinas-World crown just out of sheer confidence despite the obvious nervousness and the subsequent butchering of the English language. You know, "my pamily... , my pamily... , they was". No, I'm not here to drag her down and malign her with comments like "she's dumb", "she's stupid" or "she doesn't deserve to win", no, no, no. I will not, never going to use this blog to maliciously attack anyone just because I damn want to. Well, at least we know that she's not alone in this wide world who got mixed up. Because in the Ms. Teen America pageant, we will see that even Americans commit embarrassing mistakes when answering to a rather simple question, considering that they are an English-speaking nation. Miss South Carolina must've missed the question regarding American geography, or she just didn't paid attention. The whole thing even made it to YouTube. Ah, the power of the internet.

Let's set aside if beauty pageants has lost its credibility by the candidates that they pick, the image the they project, and on how they answer to the questions that they pick themselves. Did I miss on how they pronounce words and their grammar? Hope not! Because if we watch these pageants we will see that there are candidates who are rather poor in speaking English but kept on trying to speak it, despite their accents, and being ungrammatical. But personally I would laud on others who chose to answer in their native tongue because it was through that that they could express best what they think and what they feel regarding the question the judges throws at them. I mean, why torture yourself to speak in a language that you are not familiar with? There's no existing rule that states that candidates should answers only in English, and definitely they will not be hanged when they do not. Save the practice backstage, there's room for improvement and polishing. Feel free to speak in you own language, that what interpreters are for. I hope that the incoming beauty queens will remember that. Hopefully.

Signing off