Taken from: <http://www.philippinecollegian.org/9gag-reflex/>
Last week, I picked up an issue of the "Philippine Collegian", also known as "Kule". An article about 9gag, a comedy website, caught my attention. The article was discussing the pros and cons of the website, and eventually led to this sentence, "It is still too early to tell whether the social implications of the website are truly a boom or a bane." I was pretty sure "boom" should have been "boon". In my lexicon, "boom" is the sound of an explosion while "boon" means "blessing". ("Bane", by the way, informally means "a curse" or something bad in general.) When I got home, I searched the internet to see which of the two words was correct. It got me even more confused. Whenever I searched "boom or bane", the search engine showed results of "boon or bane". I was right; "boon or bane" is being used, but that doesn't necessarily mean that using "boom" is incorrect. I'm not sure whether the search engine is correcting me or that both "boom" and "boon" are accepted. My googling skills have failed me. Maybe Ma'am or you, my classmates, could help me with this.
PS. Sorry for the long post; this is really bothering me. :P
I think "boon or bane" is the correct combination. Even if you type "boom" instead of "boon", Google has this some sort of technology that it corrects our mistakes and tries to show us some results that could possibly be what we are looking for.
ReplyDeleteI never encountered these words before.
ReplyDeleteI am quite familiar with the words boon and bane. I think that the appropriate word to be used is boon.
ReplyDeleteTo err is human.
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