The Language You Guys Analysis

By enforcing a limit such as political correctness, people having differing opinions and backgrounds are able to refrain from offending one another through their use of certain lexical terms. Even though political correctness is viewed in some cases as being linguistically-restrictive among many people, members of society are somewhat expected to use these terms as a means of being polite. This form of language is a necessity being that some attitudes portrayed through certain aspects of language are considered taboo and otherwise offensive. An anonymous contributor commented their opinion to Debate.org about political correctness being a ‘necessary’ part of our language on the grounds

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).

Letters – Letters should be structured properly, knowing exactly who there for, the date and any content appearing on the letter is presented properly.

Language appropriate to socio-cultural sensitivities is selected and used in an appropriate manner without compromising own values or arguments

I do agree that there is some language that was developed out of non-deliberateness to which people are overly sensitive to, there has also been language that has been developed in biasness and hate. Where do we draw the line? For example, when Younkins says that “mankind” and “he” were never meant to be deliberately exclude women, I somewhat disagree. Sure it’s just a common word that has been used throughout the centuries and no one really thinks about its roots. It has been used for centuries to describe human beings as a whole. I nor anyone I know take that word and see sexism in it, but where did the term come from? If I look back in history to beginning religions, women were initially seen superior due to fertility, but once people realized that the man’s seed started the fertility process, they then rewrote religion and began to make men the superior gods and beings. So was the word mankind originally developed to show man’s superiority and sexism towards women or was it created out of generality? At the same time, who really cares except feminist extremist. As it is use to toady it is just a generalized term and isn’t used to show hostility towards women. Another example is the word “negro”. This word was developed to describe what is now, politically correct, an African-American. Just like the word “white person”, it was used to describe the person’s ethnicity, but due to slavery it has a negative connotation and should not be used. With that being said, I do

I do in fact agree with Randall. “Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American History, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of ‘the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience’” (Kennedy 1). (Please note that my points are absolutely debatable). I do indeed believe that in today’s world, even though there is still racist lurking around us, you can use the N word if it’s in the right context. I would in no condition use this manner when speaking to an adult. I also would never use this word if I were at school or work. But I would use it with my friends, or having a casual conversation with someone my age. During my senior year of high school my English teacher asked us to write an essay using our everyday terminology. She made it clear that we could use foul language. In my essay I including the N word and the next day I was called into the office. My principle explained to me that my English teacher believed I was being racist and only chose to use that word because I had the freedom to say anything I put my heart to. I got into a big argument with the principle on how the word is used differently for my generation and I was not going to apologize or accept any type of punishment. I had to write letter for the board explaining myself. I won this conflict because I stated that if my teacher was not capable of handing this kind of paper, she should have never asked for it in the first place. I

The article “English Only” Laws divide and Demean by Warren Blumenfeld states the author’s view against enacting a law making English the official language of the federal government. Mr. Blumenfeld’s premise in "English Only" is that the law is unnecessary and divisive in the United States. He is seeking a call to action in his home state of Iowa against the “English -only” law because he believes that it will negatively impact the beliefs that our nation is founded upon, rather than celebrate and promote our uniqueness as a nation of people from different cultures seeking the freedom to be individuals. He is an opponent of this law since he believes it has the potential to create prejudice and discrimination toward our citizens because

“If Only We All Spoke Two Languages” is an segment written by Ariel Dorfman that discusses the benefits of the United States becoming a bilingual and or a multilingual society. The piece was written in March 2004 and first appeared in the novel “Everything’s an Argument with Readings”. In the portion author Ariel Dorfman criticized Americans for being monolingual. The author illustrates how learning a second language “builds a bridge” to the English language. Dorfman continues to give statements of how advantages being multi or bilingual can be stating that it offers people “economic and political edge” and assists them in “understand someone else's culture.” The author concludes that if Americans do not follow through with procedures to increase

All throughout time people have been “the other.” Pratt refers to the other as being “Someone who is perceived by the dominant culture as not belonging, as they have been

In this matter some people might not think it is a big problem but making social changes is. Some will be talking about working on more important issues rather than concerning too much about sexist language and think that working against men's violence against women is way beneficial than putting effort on studying language. However, the fact is that words are tools of thought and words also could give great impact to the way we think about

One letter can make a difference as to how people address their closest friends or how they use one of the worst insults in the English language. Nigga. Nigger. What is the difference? Various forms of the well known N-Word can be used as a term of endearment as well as a derogatory slur. The N-Word has become a popular and positive term used between black people and throughout entertainment. Who can and can’t use the word without it being somewhat offensive is debatable. Some argue that no one should even say the word, no matter who the person is, because the word still has the power to trigger and oppress. Others say the word has been reclaimed and is okay to use in a positive way. The N-word is a derogatory slur used as a term of endearment

Still, it is important to note that as humans we all have certain unavoidable notions and we must leave them outside of this process. There is also a need to create a “safe space” in the session. Though it may be good natured certain “compliments” on language use can deteriorate relationships. For example, saying “You are so articulate” to an African American can be taken very offensively. I can personally attest to this situation. I have heard this almost as many times as I have been told that I “talk white”. Statements such as these can cause participants to feel judged and refrain from participating openly.

People should consider the word before communication. It has many factor of microaggression that everybody should be awareness. People have to keep in mind that use communicate with other that is different in gender, culture, race and nationality. Sometimes those words will distress onto them with unconsciously. This called microaggression that people should know, it will be a big problem on someone. If everybody care each other just a little bit, it has surely that people will not has a big problem.

Being aware of the words we use can be helpful in navigating life in many ways. For instance people on the west coast specifically southern california have an accent where we combine words and shorten them like “want to” to “wanna.” I've also found after reading a book called How Words Change Your Brain the use of negative words when in a brainstorming session in a meeting can significantly reduce people's abilities to come up with new innovative ideas and share ones they might have out of being ridiculed. Another would be soft sexism/racism. Soft sexism/racism are slurs that slip into our day to day live where we generalize a population in waqy the receiver might feel offended by. For instance one might say hey guys when there is clearly no

Being a Special Education resident, my mentor and I have the privilege of working with small groups, giving us the ability to adapt our small groups, of 2-4, with a unique discourse that is molded to our students. We only have one student we teach that is labeled as an English Language Learner but she speaks English fluently and at home the primary language spoken is English. I have learned that most of our student’s cultural discourse differs in many ways and being able to gather the difference in each and create one discourse that benefits all our students is difficult. Some students are used to going different places learning visually, while others share with their culture through stories. These styles of discourse form our students learning, developing more of an informal learning style. Not that this isn’t benefiting them in developing world knowledge but in a way that their English is grammatically unsound in terms of standard American English. All of our students have the ability to engage and contribute to conversations while playing or talking about something that interest them, but most of them seem to struggle when having a conversation using academic language. Having been in school for three months now we have really gotten to know our students and the different backgrounds they bring to our class. It is important to my mentor and me that we create a classroom where our students feel like they belong and are able to express their learning styles in ways that