Code Meshing is the process of speaking both formal and informal at the same time; where as code switching is the process of switching from speaking formal to informal, or informal to formal in order to fit in. I choose not to use either of those methods. I used to use code switching most of my life up until I went to high school. My parents taught me to code switch to show respect to my elders. You should not speak to elders the same way you would speak to your friends. I went to a Afrocentric school Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School There we was taught to embrace our history and use Ebonics in our everyday language.
The reason why I use Ebonics in my everyday language is to show homage to my ancestors. Ebonics started because our ancestors was not granted the right to education so they used Ebonics as a way to communicate with each other. Ebonics is a historical way of speaking and many schools in the Philadelphia Public School district don't teach children to speak like this, but afrocentric charter schools make it their obligation to teach us to speak like that and allow it with in their classrooms. Not teaching allowing black americans to speak ebonics in the school is telling them to neglect their culture and History. Forcing them to
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For example when I was going to private school my teacher told us that Christopher Columbus was the first to come to America and when he came here he seen Indians. I asked my teacher how was he the first person to discover America if their was people already here and she told me thats what she was taught and she never questioned it. I was was only in the 3rd grade then. Since then I questioned everything up until I went to Sankofa and they seem to answer every question about the history of every race. Native Americans is not Indians; Indians is Indians, and Native Americans is Native
The E/M code's is a big important part in this process. Being a health care professional, using the medical code's. like medicare, medicaid, other private insurance to be reimbursement. If not using the right code, the doctor office, hospital, and urgent care. Will lose a lot of money. So using the right cpt code's insurance companies, office, hospital, and urgent care can be reimbursement correct. Cause CPT code's are formed with 5 digits.
During many duels, the opponents follow “Code Duello”. In the book by Ellis, “Code duello” is followed in one of the most historically and influential American duels. This duel helped change the views of many people. This duel is important historically and politically. Therefore, this duel is important for the shaping of America.
Young instead, encourages dropping the term code switching and adopting code meshing which promotes “blendin two or mo dialects, languages, or rhetorical forms into one sentence, one utterance, one paper”(114). Young doesn’t want writers to feel as though they have to separate the way they speak at home from their academic language. Young also points out ways in which code meshing has already taken effect in tweets from Senator Chuck Grassley to President Obama and Chris Ann Cleland’s Washington Post interview (115). I believe that code meshing is an effective way to write because it makes it easier to get your point across when you’re not worrying about using large words to make your work look better. Code meshing also catches readers attention because they feel like they can relate to what the writer is
I love coding in my free time and I do truly believe that I flourish when I find myself coding. The limits of what you can do with coding are next to non-existent, and the idea of a platform with infinite possibilities engrosses me and leads to me to work as efficiently as possible towards the end goal of creating a product in which I see infinite possibilities. On top of that, another possible contributing reason for why I think coding may allow me to flourish is that with the infinite possibilities (as I stated before) comes curiosity, a curiosity that has no conclusion. The feeling of curiosity I feel as I code has a cause and effect relationship with me in that it turns me onto new methods of coding or new languages of coding which then
Mia Gordon D. Bangma ENG2D Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Code-Switching: A Means of Protection Fear is something that affects every human to some extent, and we all have different ways of dealing with that fear. In The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, characters use code-switching as protection. Starr exhibits the most noticeable behavioral change in the novel, but this does not mean that she is the only one to show such behaviors. Her parents, Lisa and Maverick, also use code switching as a means of protection, whether it be protection from the judgment of others or protection from police brutality. Starr is a prime example of behavioral change due to a fear of judgment.
In the article, “Learning How to Code Switch: Humbling, but Necessary,” I learned that I can relate to Eric Deggans to my own experience. When growing up I had to code switch, an example when I was in elementary and I was in Bilingual classes from Kindergarten to Third Grade. Then when fourth Grade hit my school wanted to switch me to an English class not a Bilingual classes anymore. My mom that day had a lot of thought about it and she said it was fine that the school suggested that, so I switched. The change was different because I couldn’t speak Spanish in my 4th grade English class anymore and I had to code switch to just speaking English to the rest of my classmates. And when I saw my Last 3rd grade bilingual class moving to 4th grade
Two African Americans are applying for the same job. One goes in speaking Standard American English (SAE); the other goes in speaking African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The interviewer can relate to the first African American; however, the interviewer cannot understand the second African American. The interviewer cannot understand why the person is dropping g’s, not using verb agreement, and using improper verbs such as finna. Can you guess who got the job? The first African American got the job because they code-switched, so the person interviewing them could understand what they were saying; whereas, the second African American didn’t get the job because although the interviewer understood what was being said it wasn’t professional. Code-switching opens up opportunities for those who use it.
Something Genava said was, “Ebonics: neither “broken” nor “sloppy” speech nor merely “slang” nor some bizarre lingo spoken only by baggy-pants-wearing black kids.” The dominant group or white supremacy want us as blacks to believes that it’s something wrong with the way we speak, or pronounce our words. I personally believe they want blacks to have little to know confidence, so we can start acting like them, and not embracing our culture. I remember one time in class the white teacher name Mrs. Beltowski asked me “Do I know my dad?” and I said, “Yeah” then she said “You mean yes?”
One may believe that the information in one’s history textbook is accurate, but this is not always the case. The definition of history is the study of past events, “the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events”, according the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. One may “regard the native Americans-if we regard them at all-as exotic or pathetic footnotes to the main course of American history”, according to Axtell. (Axtell, James.981) One may believe this because of what textbooks say. When mentioning Indians, History textbooks often infer the Indians do “nothing, resist… [or make] obstacles to the white settlement [and or] victims of oppression”. The truth is the Indians play a huge part in American history regardless to
Whose fault it this? The public school system is one problem. When I was in school, if I wanted to learn anything of my heritage, I had to search it out myself. Trying to find the truth was difficult, if not at times impossible. Today it is not much better. It is a well-known
I have been using Code Switching all my life. I had the honor to introduce myself to my country´s active president and major of my city without hesitating about the way I talk to them. In addition, Code Switching allows me to introduce myself and set up the standard the way I decide to. From my perspective code switching is an essential tool to get to know better the audience and interact. I will use code switching to developing my different roles in society now, and my future planned roles to be developed. My condition right now as and student forced to speak and write to my teachers with respect and with the vocabulary according to the area of the professor. As a friend, I talk to them with popular phrases and I use not the same level of vocabulary as the one I use with teachers. I considered inappropriate to interact with my teacher the same as I do with my
Coding professionals once looked upon computer-assisting coding as a threat. But rather, this technological tool is something that will support the coder to turn out to be more productive in the their day-to-day coding undertakings by making computer-generated proposals, permitting for more time to for data quality analysis rather than researching for diagnostic and procedural solutions that can be time consuming.
Interesting as this world is, it’s exceptionally fragile, moreover dangerous, when everyone is contemplating who has permission for a conversation. Literacies are a tool to help mediate the discussion between two or more people… possibly even oneself. Liu experiences the multiple languages and cultural changes. She is nevertheless able to learn the conflicts between the two earlier in the adolescence. In comparison, Villanueva had both an academic and colloquial literacy that he learned to “code switch” between. To be honest, I find similarities, along with differences, in the two journals when comparing them to literacy events that fall into my “soulful story.” It makes the discoveries merely that more desiring.
Although many parents believe that code switching results in language delay, or a language deficit in a child’s upbringing, there is no scientific support that proves the notion of code switching lead to delays or impairment of language acquisition (De Houwer, 1999). In fact, according to Skiba’s research in 1997, code switching has been proven to benefit a person. Through his research, the code-switching individual is said to have a larger and wider selection of vocabulary, lexical terms, and phrases that allows them to switch codes freely in different contexts and for different reasons to express themselves without boundaries. Thus, demonstrating linguistic creativity and sophistication (Auer, 1997), as well as indicating a sign of mastery in both languages (King & Fogle, 2006), to form a tolerable code-switching use.
According to Milroy and Muysken (1995), the switches occur in different ways, sometimes the switching occurs between the turns of speakers in a conversation, sometimes between utterances within a single turn and sometimes even with in a single utterance. Nguyen Ha Quyen (2011), also investigated code-switching in conversation of Vietnamese teenagers, she pointed out that “to some people, Code-switching has become a habit and most time occurs subconsciously when speaking with people at the same age” and that “code-switching should be viewed from the perspective of providing a linguistic advantage rather than an obstruction to communication.”