Analysis : ' On The Go '

In Dave Barry’s reflection. “Guys vs. Men,” he introduces the idea that the term “man” presents more negative qualities, unlike the term “guy,” which gives males free reign to indulge in stereotypical characteristics. He characterizes “guy” as a gender that likes “neat unnecessary stuff, who engage in pointless competitions with each other, and lack moral and social graces.” Barry argues the idea that “Men” is a term that holds too much responsibility and unwritten expectations for guys-who function on less complex regulations. Dave Barry creates a humorous satire based on what it means to be a “guy,”combining common stereotypes and their everyday habits.

“Authority and American Usage,” an interesting essay written by the brilliant and quick-witted David Foster Wallace, presents an argument on different ways of understanding the ever-changing American usage in the English language. Keeping up with the English language in America is like chasing your new, untrained puppy down the street. Tiring and basically impossible to get a hold of. Over the past centuries, the English language has evolved so much, that if you took a person from the 13th century and threw them in the middle of New York City in 2013, it would be as if two different languages were being spoken.

The wide employment of informal language in modern-day civilization also allows for an individual 's association with their cultures identity and values to be increased dramatically; which is especially vital in countries like Australia. This is clearly evident through a wide use of colloquialisms and slang lexemes that contribute to the social identity of Australia. For example lexemes such as “mate” and “g’day” are widely present in the Australian English vernacular and these relate wholly to the sense of solidarity and openness that is intricate to Australian culture. This is evident through the word “mate” which has been utilised instead of more formal lexemes such as “sir” or “madam”, which were more popular in the past as a way of showing another person that they are friends or that they are considered important, which clearly respects their positive face needs. The lexeme g’day” on the other hand is regularly used as an opening in a discourse between Australian members of the community of similar social class. This

When having a regular conversation with my boyfriend Isaac, over a snapchat we were looking at he noticed an odd word on the picture. He looked at it for a minute and question what “bae” was. I simply told him it was what people were saying for short instead of babe. The actual meaning of bae is before anyone else, but in our generation, it is used to call or name a person’s significant other. Isaac was astonished over how people were becoming so lazy that they could not even finish saying the word babe or baby, so bae was the new thing in to say. He added that the English language could be much better and people would sound like they had more education if words like these were prohibited or banned. The WRC 1013 10 a.m. class conducted a survey to identify the top 10 words, along with the number of times each of the 10 words was identified as needing to be banished. The idea of this survey is based off from the Lake Superior State University. “Rabe and fellow LSSU faculty and staff came up with the first list of words and phrases that people love to hate at a New Year’s Eve party in 1975, publishing it on Jan. 1, 1976” (). While many of these words are used daily, too much repetition can reflect how each generation is developing in a downward direction.

In the article, the authors reference the infamous AT&T BFF Jill commercial that aired in 2007, when texting and smart phones were just becoming popular. This commercial represents the idea that texting can have an influence on adolescents Standard English when talking out loud. This commercial also depicts the epidemic of texting lingo replacing Standard English that many people at the time feared. There were multiple receptions of the commercial exemplified in this article. The authors review the comments made about the commercial on not only the comment section of YouTube, but popular news channels such as

In Thomas C. Foster’s guide, How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition, Foster presents readers with the knowledge that a trip in literature has the potential to become something much deeper, a quest for self-knowledge. Foster lists five very important aspects that every quest will have which are, a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there. The distinction between stated reason to go there and real reason to go there are that typically the quester goes along their journey and discovers an intimate detail about themselves that relates nothing to the stated reason. It gives the quester a better sense

Physical journeys can impact upon the traveler in many ways. They can be faced with obstacles which can impact on the traveler and will need to overcome. Physical journeys can impact upon the traveler in various ways. This is shown in Dawes poem “last seen at 12.10am” where a mother is on a journey to find her missing daughter. This is also evident in Michael James Rowland 2007 film “Lucky Miles”, where a group of men’s inner journey of friendship despite differences goes through obstacles which they overcome. Another impact upon a traveler is also shown in Bruce Dawe poem “Drifters” which a frustrated mother’s journey of disappointment, which has impacted her when suddenly faced with picking up her belongings and being, forced to move. A

Within the essay, “But What Do You Mean?”, author Deborah Tannen explains several main areas of miscommunication between men and women. Within her article, she goes section-by-section comparing men and women’s preferred style of communication. She concludes that while men and women may communicate differently, neither are wrong. To address this concern, she suggests using language both parties can understand. On the other hand, in William Lutz article, “The World of Doublespeak,” he takes a different approach to language discrepancies. Lutz introduces the idea of doublespeak as inherently negative. He starts by proceeding to discuss types of doublespeak subcategory-by-subcategory. Within his subcategories, he gives various real-world examples from various aspects of communication. The conclusion Lutz resolves to claims that doublespeak impedes communication, and thus should be eliminated. Overall, despite both authors exploring aspects of language the tone, categorization, and conclusions are different.

Foster created a hypothetical story about sixteen year old Kip during the summer of 1968. While on his way to buy a loaf of Wonderbread, he encountered a German shepherd and saw his crush, Karen, playing around and laughing with the boy he hates, Tony Vauxhall. He goes on to share with readers that to the audience it may seem as an average teen running errands for his mother, while a true professor would have seen it as a quest where a knight had an unsuitable encounter with his enemy. A quest consists of a knight, a dangerous road, a Holy Grail, a princess, an evil knight, and a dragon: Kip, the knight, travels the dangerous road of German shepherds seeking a Holy Grail(a loaf of Wonderbread). During the quest he encounters a dragon(Tony’s Barracuda), an evil knight(Tony), and a princess(Karen). His comparison between the hypothetical story and the knight’s quest implies that the symbols and experience employed by the story are universal regardless of its time and/or place. The Crying of Lot 49, a book with “cartoonish elements”, is broken down to teach readers that quests come in different forms and literature will be better understood only if they strengthen their ability to discover a story’s intertextual connection(s). The only way to gain self-knowledge is to step back and dig deeper beyond the story’s surface; use interpretation to find the real reason for the quest, remembering that “always” and “never” have no meaning

The essay begins with background information, stating that the origin dates back to the 1800's when a dude was a scarecrow. He proceed to go through the history of "dude" and eventually points out where the word entered teenager vocabulary. Thanks to "Fast Times as Ridgemont High," the word "dude" became the cool exclamation and also replaced the word buddy and or friends when it came to speaking to another human, especially a man to another man.

A day does not pass me by that I do not come across American language such as, “Babe, bro and dude”. Where does youth get this language from these days? America, thanks to the influence of American media common English words are now laden with an Americanised meaning or application.

Over the years, the slang used by teens in America has changed drastically, from simple words used to describe the appearance of another to phrases to describe being intoxicated. While comparing the words and phrases used in the 1920’s to those commonly used today, I found that there are many with the same definitions, all of which tend to be related to girls, alcohol, and making fun of others.

In the early 1980’s, Scott F. Kiesling collected data on, and analyzed the use of the phrase ‘dude’ (Kiesling). This phrase, used both in the 1980’s, and in the present time, is used as a form of familiar address. Patterns of use can be established by examining both Kiesling’s data, and data that has been collected exclusively for Anthropology 170, a course held at California State University, Long Beach. Additionally, this data was not purposefully sought out but instead collected and collated as the author went about her day-to-day rituals over a period of approximately a week. In contrast, Kiesling’s data was collected and collated over a period of years, with the advantage of Kiesling’s previously held knowledge and skill as a professional. Due to the fact that there is such a vast difference between the author and Kiesling’s studies, there is a rather extreme difference in quantities of data collected. However great the differences are, though, it is possible to see that many of the patterns Kiesling identified in the use of the phrase ‘dude’ in the 1980’s have continued on well into the 21st century.

The first pattern I noticed during my observations of the Dartmouth Men’s Varsity lifts was the communicative norm of brevity through abbreviations, exclamations, short phrases, and incomplete sentences. Two main situations demonstrate this pattern of communicative brevity: lift

With mobile phones where the small screen technology is so constraining, texting and tweeting plays a significant role in how we conduct our daily communication. David Crystal wrote an article titled “Texting”, and believes the younger generation is introducing a new phase of texting where words are usually represented with acronyms (241). Crystal called this abbreviated text exchange a “textspeak” (243). Kris Axtman is also a prominent author who wrote an article, “R U Online? The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens” (247). His article focuses on teenagers and their dependency on the online technology. Axtman observes that teenagers develop a whole range of abbreviations while exchanging