Twtr? It's majorly bad! Letter to the Editor.

Texting in the last decade has emerged as the new communicative language. People use it on their phones to quickly talk and tell each other about certain things. And it’s not just kids. The majority of texts being sent out are from adults. And even so, text speak is only made for writing. If someone was to try and say these words out loud no one would be able to comprehend such. This isn’t a new language but instead a new technique towards communicating. As well as that if you look at the new mobile phones from Android and Apple being released you would notice that text speak is slowly being pushed out for a more standardized English in such conversations. The new Apple and Android phones have the full keyboard to offer, making words much easier to type (unlike the old Nokia phones). If you look at the beginning of the 21^st century, the old phones would require multiple buttons pushed multiple times in order to achieve one letter. That made writing long sentences or words much harder. These days that is not the case.

Kids also know that if you try and use these types of words and try to incorporate them into more formal sentences it won’t work. Saying such words in an essay usually come from confusion from the children. They would have to know how to spell the word first in order to spell it incorrectly. If you look at the word ‘gr8’ of course you would know not to put a number in that word; especially in more formal means of communication. So kids do know that you would need to know how to spell the word to then re-spell it for an easier way to use text speak.Another concept that these headmasters seem to be unable to comprehend is the fact that the standard of English has become much stronger. Over the decades there has always been this fear of the lack of the standardization of English in people. But if you look at our pasts you would notice the huge improvements into the educational standards of students and the ability of them to speak this language.

Text speak should be accepted as its own language. Not because it represents the standard of English, but because it represents its own communicative ordeal. Rejecting a new language that people use to communicate because it doesn’t represent its standard is absurd. If you reject text speak you can also look forward to rejecting the other types of English used around the regions of the English speaking world. 

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Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages

While reading Jeffrey Kluger's article, I found some points that I related to. He mentions and points out the struggles that young children face when learning another language. I can relate to this , I grew up learning two languages, due to my family being split by the two languages. However it was difficult for me because my brain was always switching between them causing a lot of confusion in my thinking when I was younger but i slowely began to control it, but resulted in me using the second one less and less. 
I have heard many a time,that learning more than 1 language when growing up can be extremely usefull to your brain's development and health, as well as in your future but this article gave a lot of detail into how bilingualism can be a hurdle in a child's development but is a benefit to its learning and mental health in its future.

You Say Cup, I Say Mug

From what I've  I read, this one was the most informative. When discussing a similar topic to the one of this article in class, we talked about language being a tool to understanding literature and written works. After reading this article, I now know that there is a lot more to it. The article explains how language is not only the key to understanding literature and being able to communicate but also how we perceive the world around us including factors such as time and space and how we understand the world around us. One of the researchers, Lera Boroditskey explains this really well by giving an example of how "knocking over a cup" is processed differently in our brains based on our knowledge of a language.

Language is no Smart Chart

I personally found this article very interesting because it related to my way of thinking as well. The article is mainly  about stereotypes of intelligence being made based on accents and ways of speaking.If you have an accent you should not worry about it, and should not be judged. Accents define who we are and give a little background of our heratige, who we are and how we can turn out in the future. However the study mentioned in the article, generalizations are being made about ones intelligence based around their accent. My opinion is that this is not true, your accent may hinder you in some aspects but does not affect ones intelligence. In this past this was a common thought by all those people who were well educated, but in todays modern age this is no the case.This can be see  back to our work in class, when we looked at Amy Tan and her mother. Her mother was being discriminated and judged against due to her inability to speak English at a the same level as all of the native speakers, which is quite unethical.

Eminem Interview

Welcome back, this blog will be an interview between me and Eminem, where I will ask questions based around our past few classes. I will then create a response with information I have gathered about the artist.

Intro: Eminem who was once known as slim shady is considered to be one of the best in the business , his lyrics has inspired many other young artists, as well as ordinary people. He became the the first white male rapper to produce an album that surpassed his African American counterparts, Eminem was the proved a message to the world that hip hop is not associated with race or skin color. Without further a due, lets begin.

Q: How and why did you end up in the hip hop community?

Eminem Response:So as a kid I had many intense times, My mother  who was a drug addict and an abusive step father , I never met my real dad. I had been harassed and bullied for a long time, until i began to rap in the seventh grade, I'd always loved rap but never got into it due to me bein white and all. I was scared, cause i thought they wouldn't accept me, but I did it anyway. Just as eighth grade was ending I got more comfortable and creative and started to rap bout my experiences. I had a message to communicate , i found a way to share my problems in an extremely innovative and direct manner. I think this is the primary motivation to why I began to rap, about me, my problems and the people around, with full satisfaction of what i was doing. 

Q: What are the factors that pushed you in your journey and slowed you down?

Eminem Response: Well the first obvious factor that affect my "journey" id me being white, when rap was associated with the African American population. This wasn't an obstacle that took much to overcome, in reality it gave me the inspiration to prove to each and every one that anybody can enjoy this form of hip hop as well as how it can be a method for communicating your issues regardless who you are.  I grew up in a ghetto, which was loaded with African Americans, and i was introduce to the rap scene at an early age. I have been brought up in an area where their dialect is all I heard, along these lines as a child I adjusted the dialect which is connected to rap. I additionally had a considerable measure of issues which is the reason I always have something to rap about. However the struggles with my family hit me hard, I was struggling until i focused those emotions into my rap, the anger just flowed until it ended. Nothing could slow me down for long. 

Q: How exactly did your community affect you?

Eminem Response: As you said earlier I'm the first white rapper to actually have a major affect on the Hip Hop records, I have shown the  world that type of craftsmanship can belong to anyone, that particular tongue is  not connected with yo skin or race in light of the fact that anybody can be a victim of racism, just as I was growing up in an African american neighborhood. I have a lot of haters loathing on me on the grounds, sayin "I’m a "black wannabe" and that I need  to leave this genre because it's what makes African American's standout. I imagine that rap is an individuals  way expressing their ideas, and an outlet for their emotions and hardships. This did not phase me and I pushed on. Look at me, I'm one of the best rappers in the world, and I'm white.