EXCERPTS FROM MALICTIONARY 4 1. RELOCATEE. I almost fell off my chair when I heard this used by a news reporter to describe an informal settler who is brought to a permanent relocation site. People in media should always be conscious of the grave responsibility of using and saying the right words in the correct manner because most people, especially the youth, accept them as gospel truth when used by the media. 2. RIDING IN TANDEM. With the way journalists use it nowadays, this phrase has become “assassin” even if, when one analyzes the term, it is neither a noun nor an adjective and there’s nothing sinister about two persons aboard a motorcycle or bicycle. I call this criminalizing an innocuous term, much like another crime termed by the police as “akyat-bahay.” 3. ROW FOUR. “Dim-witted.” To explain: In a common elementary classroom, especially in a public schools, the brighter pupils are usually made to occupy the front rows and the slow learners are seated in the back rows. 4. RUSH HOUR. I wonder why they call it “rush hour” when it is absolutely impossible to rush at this time of the day anyway.
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