In the age of digital duels, the keyboard warriors have sharpened their swords not with steel but with a thesaurus. With a flick of their fingers, they unleash a barrage of highfalutin words, attempting to dress up their arguments like a peacock in a tuxedo. 

Suddenly, a simple meal of salad and bread becomes an “extravagant feast,” as if tossing lettuce and slicing baguettes were akin to summoning culinary magic. And don’t even get them started on prized dinnerware; apparently, using fine china is now a declaration of royal lineage, reserved only for occupants of palaces.

But hold on a minute. Last time I checked, expensive chinaware wasn’t a status symbol exclusive to the Malacañang Palace elite. It’s more of a hand-me-down tradition in Filipino households, passed from Lola to Mom to you, not a symbol of opulence but of sentimental value. 

So, to all the keyboard knights wielding their verbose vocabulary like a blunt instrument: maybe it’s time to trade the thesaurus for some common sense.