ENG 104 Blog - Nathan Ten

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Language is related to identity because it is one of the most prominent ways that a human being and even other animals express themselves. Thinking broadly, dogs have their barks, cats have their meows, crickets have their tweets, and humans have the multiple languages and dialects that each civilization has created and developed throughout time. I think that language is a very broad term and when thinking about it encompasses the whole world and maybe even more. Language is one of the main forms of communication and expression and depending on what language you speak it shapes which community you are a part of and who you are within that community. In order to truly go into how it connects with identity, you would have to look at specific examples of different languages and dialects and how it shapes people and their communities.

"Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos' need to identify ourselves as a distinct people." This quote is a much more blunt way of representing the idea of different languages and dialects and how people speak. The message that most of the readings have been giving so far is having a language that helps form a sense of identity and individuality. This quote is a specific example of how language creates that. The Chicano are unique and special because of their language and culture/

"it mean that the one set of rules that people be applyin to everybody’s dialects leads to perceptions that writers need “remedial training” or that speakers of dialects are dumb" I think that this quote represents the message that the past few readings have been giving out. Making everyone follow one set of rules is unfair and doesn't make any sense. People should be able to speak the way they want to and not be ridiculed by society because of their way of speaking. It's the same thing as any other differences that people have.

"We don't have a grasp on the medical knowledge; we haven't been schooled in that language. :what is immediately clear to the doctors and nurses is opaque to us. We're just not part of that professional culture." I feel that this reading has a very similar meaning as Amy Tans writing about her language. This article is just a more broad and "professional" way of getting the same message across. This article seems to be a more professional/job related way of talking about different languages and "slang" that people use. I think that the abbreviations and words that doctors use and physicist use can be considered as slang, more so professional slang. It goes back to the same meaning that everyone has different languages and we won't understand it until we try to learn and understand it ourselves.

"I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the english language and its variations in this country or others." Although this is the first two sentences of the writing by Amy Tan, I feel that it represents a lot of what she has to say. The way that people speak not just around the world but even just in different households and communities is all so different. In terms of english, people have their own slang, their own words, even if it is just for comedic use, and sometimes their own dialect of english. I would say that the way that Amy Tan speaks to her family in a "broken english" is just another dialect. It is not inherently wrong to speak that way, it is just a bit confusing to people who don't. And even then, it is still understandable when thinking about it. I believe that she is trying to say that no one is a true scholar of english in the public sense, but when thinking about our own true languag...

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