Personal Narrative : Personal Speech

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.

I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset.

I prepared for my informative speech by practicing several times in front of a mirror at home and timing myself. I worked on keeping my eyes up and trying to memorize my speech to help me keep my eyes out more during the informative speech. I also worked on trying to calm my nerves down, so when I presented my nervousness didn’t show through as much as it did when I gave my shield speech. I would by practicing as much as I did at home, it helped calm my nerves by the time I got up in front of my classmates and gave my informative speech on what girls really mean verse what they say. Although I did practice and it did help calm me down more, I still had my nervousness come out during my informative speech.

Mr. McWhorter exemplifies that with people using the abbreviation "LOL" (laugh out loud). While at first the meaning was intended to just mean laugh out loud, it has taken a more generalized approach in it's use today. He states that "LOL" is much more used to express empathy to the person receiving, and not so much it's prior definition. He provides examples to show how words change over time as in silly meaning blessed in the past. Other words that have changed are gay (happy), bitch (female dog), and awful (to

Some of the sayings was a collection of phases like “right on” cool, I can dig it, and I’m hip which all means agreeing with something or someone; which only could be spoken among peers. And making a peace and love signs with your fingers as an unspoken departure from friends.

“Sam, be quiet!” The whole room went silent, then everyone broke out laughter. Mrs. Fowler, my eighth-grade science teacher and science club coordinator, uttered these words numerous times a day, due to my chatty demeanor. It had become a class joke that we couldn’t get through a period without her saying it – and she sometimes threw a “Sam, be quiet” out even when I wasn’t talking or someone else was.

Although since the start of the course I have made alot of improvement with communication, one of the things that I still struggle with is being nervous. This is extremely frustrating for me because it seems like no matter how much I try not to overthink, and approach a situation with confidence my nerves get the best of me and I start to become embarrassed and frustrated with my inability to effectively articulate myself in social situations.

The key to having an sensational essay is to have a breathtaking introduction filled with many powerful and complex vocabulary, that flows through like a story. Being a writer in a advance placement class, during the beginning of the school year, I was not very confident coming into the class. There were many concerns regarding my writing ability such as: spelling, punctuation and emphasizing advanced vocabulary. Starting off in this class put a huge stress load on my back. I was challenged in every aspect in writing, from the nine point scale to minor punctuation mistakes. As the semester continued, I’ve developed many new skills such as learning when or when not to use a comma, how to expand my vocabulary and how to use long and short sentences in order to make the essay’s more fascinating. Even though, the essays were very

Communicating nonverbally with every person I came across and verbally with every other person I saw was an eye-opening experience. It altered the way that I viewed how people communicate with each other on a daily basis. As a result of my verbal greetings, people gave me a mix of responses varying from happy to angry. Most of the reactions toward me saying “hi” or “how’s it going” were positive. Many people simply greeted me in a similar way and we went our separate ways. It seemed like when I was walking around outside on campus that all I got was a short reply back. But when I greeted people in my dorm, people were more friendly and welcoming to have a conversation. By saying “hello”, it opened the chance to talk with people on my floor

When I first arrive in America I start going to school. I learn to speak up and not always being shy and left alone. I would listen to others and go home and ask my uncle what they means. That’s how I start learning English.

In his article, “How Do You Say Sex?,” Jonathon Green describes how we are using more slangs words in our life than the original words. Now a day, we keep generating more slang words just to make the original word looks fancier, shorter and stylish. In addition, a group or a community create a slang word, so that word can only be used within a particular group. Once that slang word is being used by other group— now it is a time to generate a new slang to replace the old one. This is how the slang language has been dominating the society. For instance, a word stupid has 1,000 slangs. Why? The theory behind creating a new slang is to control others in that particular crowd, and the new slang word will created as soon as it is known by other

I remember countless little episodes in my life where if my sister said a certain word to me, I would be on the floor laughing within seconds. It seemed almost as if when we got older, we started becoming more clever in choosing the words that would bring us to the point where we were peeing our pants. From preschool to the end of elementary school my sister and I would always find something, be it a phrase, word, or just a very strange idea that made us giggle until our mom started laughing at the mere sight of us rolling on the floor in tears. These words cycled at a rate of a new word about every month.

In Clueless, a major concept in practically every scene is the slang used by the characters. Understanding slang has a direct effect on

Over the decades people have become less educated, and stopped using a higher vocabulary. In place of the higher word choice, groups of people devolved words that are “cooler” to say. Those words are called slang. Slang means words or phrases that are commonly used in the English language to help communicate to a specific crowd of people. The crowd of people that use slang may vary to different age groups. And over the decades more words have been devolved, making slang words like a continuous fad. Slang words, were developed to make communication to certain groups easier, simpler, and perhaps more fun, however the use of slang words can cripple ones

All languages grow in the direction of change. All languages exist to meet the needs of their speakers. These two Linguistic Rules demonstrate the flexibility of language to be impacted by sociocultural changes. Throughout the developmental history of the English Language, word borrowing has been an integral system of language growth and change. This long-standing tradition of adopting new words into the language has not been slowed in Modern English, but has rather become more expansive and multi-faceted: technological advances in the last two centuries have added a great number of words to the Modern English lexicon, as well as the World Wars, and immigration. Growth and adaptations of language occur over time to meet the needs of the speakers through expanded vocabulary, new connotations and meanings, and through the adoption of words into mainstream culture that were previously used only by subcultures. This paper will seek to explore the development of slang in Modern English and its cultural implications.