In “So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn’t?” Farhad Manjoo shows popular spelling errors made by Donald Trump in his tweets, expressing that one puts too much weight on “spelling and other typographical mistakes,” stating that Twitter is a place for “immediacy” and when one chooses to pay more attention to errors in spelling it “blinds us to content” instead of paying attention to the “unvarnished, unfiltered view of [Trump’s]” or anyone else’s mind. Manjoo, displays in his article several examples of spelling mistakes made by world renowned politicians and his own spelling errors to demonstrate that criticizing grammatical errors in tweets, it is “elitist” and makes one not “focus on what people say” but leads to losing the grasp of the more essential crucial issue that is at stake. Manjoo showcases his affection for defending grammatical errors claiming that “people are attracted to spelling” and it is “a forgivable sin” for politicians to misspell as spelling correctly has become an important “mainstay of the modern public education system.” With the white supremacist march that took place in Virginia this year, it was a viral and significant topic regarding cultural oppression today. Trump tweeted praising the marches saying that “Sometimes you need …show more content…
He himself, being an editor for the New York Times, deliberately makes spelling errors to show that anyone can make grammar mistakes, but that is not what people should be concerned about. Manjoo misspells “trump” and even in the title of this article, he adds an extra letter in “who” to grasp the attention of the reader. He does this to prove the point that when focusing and criticizing on the spelling errors one would not read the article or in his defense, the tweet. Or would read it and completely ignore the fact that it was a “racist tweet” because they were too busy trying to be conceited with checking
Steve Chapman, a columnist and editor of the Chicago Tribune, perfectly depicts in his article the ever-growing hostility that America faces, not limiting its tensions to that of which it faces with our foreign adversaries, specifically North Korea, but including that of its internal enemy: the philosophy of racial superiority. Chapman appeals to those who stand against the hatred and prejudice that has come to light on behalf of white nationalists, taking into account the latest incidents of Charlottesville, Virginia. The journalist mentions that, in spite of the recent occurrences that have overtaken Americans in a sudden mental war between differentiating factions, white nationalists face an imminent defeat. Instead of elaborating on how
Anyone with a TV, Radio, Newspaper, Phone or ears have heard nothing but horrible things about trump over the past year or two. Every corner you look, or media you scroll on something will be pushed in front of your face on the negative aspect of Donald Trump. Casually scrolling through facebook and I notice yet again another, horrible headline for Trump. “Donald Trump Wrongly Corrected A Veteran About The Suicide Rate”. Being intrigued I clicked on it. It was a video, taken at the the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Commander-in-Chief Forum. Rachel Fredericks, aviations operations in the Marine Corps, asked trump a simple question on what he planned to do about the sing rates of suicidal veterans due to PTSD. Trump did not respond, instead he decided to 1. Not answer the question completely and 2, corrected Rachel with wrong information.
From generations to generation grammar has been a big part of the English language. It has also changed since it first develops. From texting complete sentences like “See you later” to “C U l8r” or from using the spelling two and using the number form of it to replace that. Using slang word such as those can ruin a person’s reputation. In the stories of The Joy of Texting by Lynne Truss and I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why. by Kyle Wiens, both show some main similarities for it uses of correct grammar and why it should be that way. Grammar can make or break a person and could cost serious chances in life.
On June 16, 2015, a long time television and real estate magnate by the name of Donald J. Trump opened his presidential campaign by uttering one of the most racially insensitive remarks in today’s time when he elucidated upon that notion that Mexican immigrants who come to America are not model citizens but rather rapists and murderers who undermine the legitimacy and economic fortitude of the American experiment. This racist and xenophobic remark illustrates just how entrenched the notion of white supremacy or as Walter Rodney would call it the “white cultural imperialism” ideology is inextricably tied to the understanding of our society today. Because of this problematic ideology, there must be some sort of opposition to fight against such
The author of the article discusses the hatred that revolves around the concept of equality in America. The author of the news article uses his knowledge of past events, such as slavery, and current issues. The audience of the article is those who don’t understand why the protests and riots in Charlottesville is an issue to many White Nationalist. The articles compare in the sense that they both discuss hatred that has been revolving on the issue, but they differ on what they speak of, as this article speaking of the president and his issues and the other speaks of the people. In conclusion, after many years of fighting against the hatred in society, there is still a lot to be done.
With social media such as Twitter or Instagram, people have learned how to deliver the same message without using so many words. Technology users incorporate shortcuts such as “LOL” and “SMH” into their texts and social media posts, thus proving that people can still make a strong impact despite doing less work. In his satirical essay “On Laziness,” Christopher Morley employs advanced diction and short sentence structure to disprove the popular idea that one cannot accomplish as much being lazy.
“‘Tweet. Tweedle-lee-Dee’ (118 Character Left),” by Olivia Fletcher writes from the definition pattern of development. Fletcher’s thesis was, “Since those days, the tweet has morphed into a word whose meaning your great grandfather could have never imagined when he was listening to Day’s hit on Billboard’s Hot 100.” The author organizes her content into different segments; first she explains the history of the new definition of a tweet and she also compares Twitter and Facebook. Her next two paragraphs summarize the negative effects of tweeting, and these paragraphs also include a precis of a “Twitter war” between John Mayer and Perez Hilton. The last two paragraphs in the body discuss the positive effects of tweeting in schools. In the final
Society today is quick to judge and state what is wrong and what is acceptable by the public. While some differences between Spelling Matters and Use Your Own Words are obvious, the similarities are relevant. Anne Trubek says that perhaps it is time to change or alter grammar rules to match the current generation and culture. We should advance our guidelines about what is proper and improper along with what is happening right now with the language. While Mikita Brottman says, “bad spelling can be a godsend—a way of weeding out those who are thoughtless and inattentive to detail” (p. 219).
Having poor grammar skills leaves one with the incapability to clearly speak or write and be correctly understood. Technology is destroying grammar skills of the adolescents generations. Texting has us turning grammar into shorthand sentences. For instance, using the number two as a short form for “to”. In the article “Does Grammar Really Matter?”, Mignon Fogarty writes, “let’s say you sent your company president an e-mail
The author focused on the hatred that has spread in America these past years and why white supremacists had enough of losing the basic principle of white supremacy. The writer gathered information by analyzing the event that took place in Charlottesville and the president’s speech Tuesday night. The audience for this article was for the people who were wondering where this argument stands in our country. This article and my article showed hatred because they both talk about how these white supremacists aren’t going to stop all their discrimination towards colored people, but this article mainly focuses on the protest and the comments made. The topic of hatred is discussed in the article because white nationalists were protesting
He should have cited to more data and examples to build upon this point. He started a petition in Iowa to support his agenda against this particular law. It was directed to the Iowa House of Representatives, State Senate, and Governor. Its purpose was to abolish the state law dictating "English Only," as he argued that it was prejudicial and discriminating against those whom English is not their first language. He is persuasive with his emphasis on multilingualism and multiculturalism in our schools and in society by showing how it will prevent the United States from destroying all the different cultures that have settled in this country and made it the melting pot for which it is known. He uses the “melting pot” analogy because he knows it is familiar to us as Americans. He also uses phrases such as “I believe”, “I have”, and “I argue” that make his argument seem less reliable, but he backs it up by using solid information and saying something
In the past ten years the way we as a people communicate has changed greatly. No longer is it uncommon for conversations to not be face to face and now more so than ever conversations take place through text. As with any change there will be and is push back to it. The conflict over the consequences of the social media dependent society have now intensified as a result of social media playing ever greater roles in how politics is seen and even conducted. This has been a major societal question since the presidential election of 2008 and the debate has been written about, discussed, and argued by thousands of different politicians,
The result verified that there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores based on the number of abbreviations in their sent and received text messages (Swayne and Messer). In other words, the word abbreviations and punctuation short-cuts that famously used in text messaging can alter individuals’ ability to recognize and apply proper spelling, grammar and punctuation techniques in writing and daily life communication. If the uses of abbreviations are not controlled from the beginning, both sender and receiver of text messaging will be associated with how poorly they will perform on the test based on the level of standard literacy they have.
Not So Fast,” Andrea Lunsford argues that rather than leading to a new illiteracy, the digital technologies in the modern world help students to develop their ability of writing. Not only that students are daferrors than 25 years ago, actually with less spelling errors. In order to help students with the challenges, the teacher should offer solid instructions and encouragement rather than derision.
We use abbreviations and emoji’s to get our point across. As college students we send so many texting messages that we do not realize that we hold on to those habits of using incorrect spelling and full sentences. Using this way of communication so often has caused college students to carry it over to formal writing projects. Texting is another form of writing, some would believe that it will help with our writing skills but at the same time it making us lose our depth when it comes to writing. Students don’t use a much detail when it comes to writing papers. Grammar gets affected and we get in the habit of abbreviating our words which do not help enhance our writing at all. This articles just goes through saying that texting reflects on a lot more than just students language skills.