受訪者是學民思潮的周庭
朋友們也許都是學民思潮的擁護者
不滿主持的提問，暗示他是個cynic
大家可以自行判斷主持有否偏頗
不過我相信在評斷一個人之前
不應只憑片面感覺
順道提醒一下那些充滿正義感的朋友
這位他們相當不屑的ATV host並非無名之輩
而是從事記者行業超過三十年
出過多本著作
在記者界名頭甚響的Michael Chugani
想知道他是不是cynic
看看他的專欄文章
或youtube上其他newsline的訪問就一清二楚
其實他在頭條日報專欄上亦有提到這次跟周庭的訪問
http://blogcity.me/blog/reply_blog_express.asp?f=YMHPC08RO6211091&id=572407
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A few days ago, while riding on the MTR, I saw a young mother
coaxing (gently persuading) her daughter to speak in English. The girl
was about six years old. Her mother spoke to her in simple English and
asked her to repeat every sentence. At first, the mother repeated the
English train announcements, such as "The next stop is Admiralty" and
asked the little girl to say it. Then the mother said to her daughter:
"You must speaking English to make good your English." The little girl
repeated: "I must speaking English to make good my English." I chuckled
(laughed quietly) to myself because the grammar was wrong. I wanted to
tell her it should be: "You must speak English to improve your English"
but decided not to interfere.
Even though the mother's English was not very good, it made me happy to see her coaxing her daughter to speak it. As I have said before, English is evolving (changing, developing, progressing) very fast in the digital age of twitter and WhatsApp. Grammar is important but it should not be considered the most important thing. It is hard for people to have perfect grammar if their first language is not English. Even people whose mother tongue is English make grammatical mistakes. I believe grammatical mistakes are acceptable if people understand what you are saying. Last week I invited Agnes Chow Ting from the student group Scholarism to my TV show. She is a 16-year-old form six student. Even university students nowadays don't speak good English. But I was astounded (surprised, shocked) when Chow Ting answered my questions in very good English. Her English is not flawless (perfect) but I found it better than even some of our top government officials. For example, after last year's budget, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said on English radio: "With the low birth rate, people in HK are diminishing." This is poor English. People do not diminish (shrink or get smaller). He should have said: "The population in Hong Kong is shrinking." I am sure Agnes Chow Ting would not have made a mistake like that. ＊ ＊ ＊ 數天前我乘港鐵，見到一位年輕媽媽在哄（coaxing）她的女兒說英語。那女孩才六歲，她的母親用簡單英語跟她說話，然後要她逐句重複一遍。起初，那母 親重複列車的英語廣播，例如"The next stop is Admiralty"（「下一站是金鐘」），然後叫小女孩說一遍。然後母親跟女兒說"You must speaking English to make good your English."小女孩重複"I must speaking English to make good my English."我咯咯地暗自偷笑（chuckled），因為句子的文法錯了。我多想告訴她那句子應該是"You must speak English to improve your English"，但決定不去介入。 雖然那母親的英語不是很好， 但見到她在哄（coaxing）小女孩說英語，教我很高興。我從前說過，在twitter和WhatsApp的數碼時代中，英語正在快速演化 （evolving）。文法很重要，但不會被視作最重要的。英語若不是人們的第一語言，很難叫人的文法完美無誤。即使母語為英語人，也難免犯下文法錯誤。 我認為只要其他人明白你的意思，文法錯誤是可以接受的。 上星期我邀請了學生組織學民思潮的周庭上來我的電視節目，她 是一個十六歲的中六學生。今天，即使大學生也未能說出好的英語，但當周庭以流利英語回答我的問題時，我非常震驚（astounded）。她的英語不是完全 精確無誤（flawless），但我認為她甚至比某些政府高官要說得好。譬如，上年的《財政預算案》後，財政司司長曾俊華在英語電台中說過："With the low birth rate, people in HK are diminishing."（「出生率偏低，香港人正在縮小。」）這就是糟糕的英語。人是不會萎縮的（diminish）。他應該說："The population in Hong Kong is shrinking."（「香港的人口正在萎縮中。」）我肯定周庭不會犯上這樣的錯誤。 mickchug@gmail.com 中譯:七刻 Michael Chugani 褚簡寧 |
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另一件大新聞是
Nokia被microsoft收購了
而且microsoft己明言以後不會以Nokia的名義出新機
歷年來用過五部Nokia的電話
6110 (2001-2002經典之選，向媽借的，因沒有震機功能，在圖書館裏使用不方便被淘汰)
3310 (2002-2002當年最平價之選，在百褔道球場被高矮小偷偷去.....)
3310 (2002-2006手機被偷第二天，爸默默地買回來給我的。keyboard入塵失靈而且因太耐用被恥笑而被淘汰)
6230 (2006-2009當年自稱smartphone，和弦鈴聲，彩芒，同樣地keyboard入塵失靈，而且上網check email等不便被淘汰)
E71 (2009-2012同樣曾經自稱smartphone，穏定，qwerty keyboard打字非常方便，可用whatsap，上網，check email等功能.....敗給samsung galaxy而被淘汰)
原來曾經的手機皇牌Nokia是最先研發smartphone (touch screen, 上網等功能) 的
比apple早了十年 (記得當年Nokia出的touch screen 機很笨重，還有伸縮keyboard在底部，字典咁厚，touch screen的反應亦相當笨拙)
不過在此期間sony ericsson 以出色設計蠶食了Nokia的手機市場
使Nokia放棄smartphone而走回舊路
結果iphone, samsung等乘時而起
因一個策略錯誤Nokia巨人從此倒地不起
印證了我之前的xanga理論
anyway
i will miss you
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另一個倒下的是yahoo blog
將會和無名小站一起在今年尾扑星日關站
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今天在weather下工作了六個小時
身心俱疲了
雖然我知道是工作環境的常態
不過對於那些只為自保
不互相幫助的同事
我還是覺得很氣憤
日子還漫長
希望你們不會有求我幫助的一天
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