Saturday, October 26, 2013

Language Barriers on Blogs

I know this has got to be, one of the many issues when writing, composing or doing anything that has to do with words or languages.

I mean really.

I just checked on the page views I had for 'There's more to life than love. There's more to life than grades.' and i checked the weird graph that came along with it. It stated there the viewers and the country where they lived in. Four of them were from america, one from Ukraine and three from South Korea and one from the Philippines. Well. I forgot where the other one lived. Anyways! The point is, did they understand what I wrote on that blog? I mean, I used English and my native language (Which is Tagalog.) on it and I dare say is that, did they really see the point of the blog they just read?

You see, this is why it's hard for us all to communicate. I mean, we should like, have one universal language or something so whenever we spoke to each other, wherever we may be, we would understand one another and not have second meanings or other interpretations because of the accents and the languages we use! Not only is it a burden or anything, but I think it's a good topic for all of us on how we communicate to others.

I just went on 9gag the other day and I saw this hilarious post about a manly guy who had a Chinese character for a tattoo, but the tattoo meant (sorry for the language,) 'pussy.' It was embarrassing! I mean, what if you had that tattoo and passed along someone who can read it, wouldn't that give them other thoughts? yes, it would. It would give them a bad impression on the person who has the tattoo.  Personally on my opinion, I hate the fact that there's a language barrier on us, especially for bloggers. I have a spanish follower on my Tumblr and whenever she reblogs a post, even if it might seem funny, I can't understand it and I have to open up Google translate just to decipher her post!

It's exhausting and frustrating. :( Not does that only stop us from communicating with others, and allow ourselves to be open to the people that we're missing out on, but it gives us the wrong idea of the people we live in! Especially for those who are misjudged and tormented by how they talk, or how they're different! Sigh.

I'm sorry. I'm just so frustrated and hurt!

But let's not be rash here.Let's still remain open and try to communicate. Don't be a stereotype and do what the other people do, be yourself and be hospitable. I have no idea what I'm saying anymore, but it just leads us to one thing, Don't let Barriers stop you from doing what you want, if not, try to be mindful of the other people and allow yourself to help them be convenient in the language we use. So from now on, I'm gonna use the English language when blogging, for the sake of other viewers and readers out there. :D

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