Pronoun Analysis Towards The Opinion About
Kemenkominfo’s Decision To Block Tumblr.
BACKGROUND
Business English is
variant of international English specially suited for business purpose.
Business English means a different things to different people. For some people
it refers to the communication skills for business communication, for example
is presentations, negotiations, meetings, socializing, etc. For others, it
focuses on vocabulary and topics relate to business.
After I read several articles, it can be
concluded that tumblr is microblogging platform. It provides the users to
create multimedia contents or others in the form of blog. The user can upload
various kinds of multimedia such as video, photo, text, audio, chat, quote, and
link.
On March 5th
2018, Kementrian Komunikasi and Informasi (Kemenkominfo), have blocked tumblr and Indonesian
citizen can’t go into tumblr. Kemenkominfo
found 360 accounts which contain mature contents. They also give a warning
to tumblr to clear the negative contents, yet tumblr hasn’t given any respon.
I’m not agree if
the government tries to block tumblr. In my opinion tumblr has many positive
aspects such as users can upload their activities, experiences, fiction
stories, poems, etc. Beside text, users can also use several features such as
audios, photos, or videos to make their tumbr become interesting. To access
tumblr, users only need domain and not hosting. Tumblr provides features which
can help users to upload texts, videos, or photos, so that they won’t get any
difficulties for doing so or upload their upload tumblr contents. The tumblr
contents can be shared through twitter or facebook. Users
can categorized the uploaded photos based on what they want. Tumblr has
many templates available. It is mobile application which has a simple and
interesting interface. Tumblr doesn’t have many button and navigation, so that
it can be easier to use. The negative contents can’t be detected by clicking
the report button or icon. The unfriendly search engine becomes the weakness of
tumblr because its simplicity.
Every social
medias may have sensitive or mature content in it. But the question is why does
it only tumblr which get a warning from Kemenkominfo.
I think it’s not fair. The government should give all of social medias a
warning to delete the sensitive or mature content which have already uploaded
by the users. They also should give tumblr more time, as for the example 96
hours to clear or delete those contents as well as to improve the platform itself.
As for the positive effect for this warning is Kemenkominfo started to lessen the mature or sensitive contents in
social media. The mature content can give several negative effect to the
viewers or readers or users such as addicted to alcohol. If
they don’t get to drink any alcohol, they will get more emotional and
uncontrollable.
Before the warning
given, Kemenkominfo should held a
survey to find out whether tumblr should be blocked or no. Many people in
Indonesia use tumblr to express their feeling in the form of text, photos,
audio, video, etc. As for the example Pidi Baiq becomes one of the best writer
in Indonesia through tumblr. Based on the background above, the title of this
assignment is Pronoun Analysis Towards The Opinion About Kemenkominfo’s Decision To Block Tumblr.
THEORY
On oxforddictionaries.com, pronouns are used in place
of a noun that has already been mention or that is already known, often to
avoid repeating the noun. In general, they can be divided into various
different categories:
1.
Subject Pronouns
2.
Object Pronouns
3.
Possessive
Pronouns
4.
Reflexive Pronouns
5.
Relative Pronouns
Subject pronouns replace nouns that are the subject of
their clause. In the 3rd person, subject pronouns are often used to avoid
repetition of the subject's name. Examples :
·
I am 16.
·
You seem lost.
·
Jim is angry, and he
wants Sally to apologize.
·
This table is old.
It needs to be repainted.
·
We aren't coming.
·
They don't like pancakes.
Object pronouns are used to replace nouns that are the
direct or indirect object of a clause. Examples :
·
Give the book to me.
·
The teacher wants
to talk to you.
·
Jake is hurt
because Bill hit him.
·
Rachid recieved a
letter from her last week.
·
Mark can't find it.
·
Don't be angry
with us.
·
Tell them to hurry
up.
Possessive
pronouns replace possessive nouns as either the subject or the object of a
clause. Because the noun being replaced doesn't appear in the sentence, it must
be clear from the context. Examples :
·
This bag is mine.
·
Yours is not blue.
·
That bag looks
like his.
·
These shoes are
not hers.
·
That car is ours.
·
Theirs is parked in the garage.
There are also possessive
adjectives which is similar with possessive pronouns. Possessive adjectives are
not pronouns, but rather determiners. It is useful to learn them at the same
time as pronouns, however, because they are similar in form to the possessive
pronouns. Possessive adjectives function as adjectives, so they appear before
the noun they modify. They do not replace a noun as pronouns do. Examples :
·
Did mother find my
shoes?
·
Mrs. Baker wants
to see your homework.
·
Can Jake bring
over his baseball cards?
·
Samantha will fix her
bike tomorrow.
·
The cat broke its
leg.
·
This is our
house.
·
Where is their
school
Reflexive pronoun
uses when we want to refer back to the subject of the sentence or clause. Reflexive
pronouns end in "-self" (singular) or "-selves" (plural).
Examples :
·
I told myself
to calm down.
·
You cut yourself
on this nail?
·
He hurt himself
on the stairs.
·
She found herself
in a dangerous part of town.
·
The cat threw itself
under my car!
·
We blame ourselves
for the fire.
·
The children can
take care of themselves.
Beside all of
pronouns above, there are relative pronouns that introduce relative clauses.
The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The
relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of
relative clause. Examples :
·
We don’t know the
person who donated this money.
·
We drove past my
old school, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
·
He went to the
school that my father went to.
· The Kingfisher
group, whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year,
includes about 720 high street shops. Superdrug, which last week
announced that it is buying Medicare, is also part of the group.
·
The parents whom/who/that
we interviewed were all involved in education in some way.
As the analysis, the concept of pronouns in my opinion
above are:
1. Subject Pronouns:
• Business English means a different things to different
people. For some people it refers to the communication skills
for business communication, for example is presentations, negotiations,
meetings, socializing, etc. For others, it focuses on
vocabulary and topics relate to business.
• After I read several articles, it can
be concluded that tumblr is microblogging platform. It provides
the users to create multimedia contents or others in the form of blog
• Tumblr doesn’t have many button and navigation, so
that it can be easier to use
• I think it’s not fair
• It is mobile application which has a simple
and interesting interface
• They also give a warning to tumblr to clear
the negative contents
• Users can categorized the uploaded photos based on
what they want
• Tumblr provides features which can help users to upload
texts, videos, or photos, so that they won’t get any
difficulties for doing so or upload their upload tumblr contents
• They also should give tumblr more time, as
for the example 96 hours to clear or delete those contents as well as to
improve the platform itself
• If they don’t get to drink any alcohol,
they will get more emotional and uncontrollable
2. Object Pronouns:
• Every social medias may have sensitive or mature content
in it
3. Possessive Adjectives:
• In my opinion tumblr has many positive
aspects such as users can upload their activities,
experiences, fiction stories, poems, etc
• Beside text, users can also use several features such as
audios, photos, or videos to make their tumbr become
interesting
• Tumblr provides features which can help users to upload
texts, videos, or photos, so that they won’t get any difficulties for doing so
or upload their upload tumblr contents.
• Many people in Indonesia use tumblr to express their feeling
in the form of text, photos, audio, video, etc.
• The unfriendly search engine becomes the weakness of
tumblr because its simplicity.
4. Reflexive Pronouns:
• They also should give tumblr more time, as for the
example 96 hours to clear or delete those contents as well as to improve the
platform itself
5. Relative Pronouns:
• After I read several articles, it can be concluded that tumblr
is microblogging platform
• Tumblr provides features which can help
users to upload texts, videos, or photos, so that they won’t
get any difficulties for doing so or upload their upload tumblr contents
• Tumblr doesn’t have many button and navigation, so that it
can be easier to use
• Kemenkominfo found 360 accounts which contain
mature contents
• It is mobile application which has a
simple and interesting interface
• Every social medias may have sensitive or mature content
in it. But the question is why does it only tumblr which get a
warning from Kemenkominfo
• The government should give all of social medias a warning
to delete the sensitive or mature content which have already
uploaded by the users
CONCLUSION
Based on the background of the above, it can be
concluded that the current development of information technology is rapidly
growing development of information technology which had a positive impact and
negative. An example of the potential negative impact of development of
information technology is a tumblr has 360 account with porn content. The
analysis used for opinions using pronouns. Pronouns used is the subject
pronouns, possessive adjectives, pronouns object, reflexive pronouns, and relative
pronouns.
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