Accidental Dialect

During or before election time, we frequently hear news about a politician aspiring to be a senatorial or even a presidential candidate. In the same way, reporters, either in print or broadcast media, often mention the word “Presidentiable(s)” or “Senatoriable(s)” in their spiels during reporting.

But before you react, kindly consult first all your dictionaries or lexicons available on hand either by hard bound or online to check the existence of these words or language. I just wonder why they become viral in our everyday speech that become a trend and accidentally become part of our language or dialect.

Maybe the reason for these accidental dialects is that the Filipinos are always innovative with regard to fashion, expression, writings, and most especially speech. This is very evident in the jejemon language that some Filipino youth invented. In the same way, jejemon creates notoriety by not adhering in the traditional speech or language.  Moreover, jememons are defined as persons with low IQ and as persons or individuals who allegedly spread stupidity in text and social networking sites.

Now, let’s go back to the word “Presidentiables” and “Senatoriables” which, to others, refer to the aspirants for President and Senator of a country.  If you consult these words in any search engine available online, you will be frustrated with the result of its inexistence as well as the possibility of mockery that you would receive from netizens around the globe. Therefore, it is still safer to use the adjectives “Presidential” and “Senatorial” when we refer to electoral candidates.

That’s another point to ponder with.