Tongue

Ankyloglossia is also known as tongue-tie, which can create many problems with eating, speech, and oral hygiene. Tongue-tie is an excessive tissue that connecting the ventral portion of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. 4% - 10% of babies with tongue-tie have difficulty in breastfeed, which resulting in early bottle-fed and slow weight gain. A procedure called frenotomy can help release the tongue from the floor of the mouth by surgical scissors or laser, which will improve breastfeeding for…

In the story “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is important to most of us living because people that are Hispanic or Latino tend to have an accent. If people tend to not talk English correctly without an accent they would likely start laughing. One of the many points in the story is linguistic terrorism, which meant for her that if a Spanish language is different from the other doesn’t mean that one is less authentic. It means that different people had different ways of talking to each other like the…

America is a multicultural society with an abundance of accents just as diverse as its people. The documentary American Tongues explores these differences in speech and how exactly they affect and shape the lives of American speakers. It does this through an social examination of a few American accents, accompanied by commentary from professional linguistic experts. The documentary emphasized that accents can either bring us Americans together or set us apart. The accent one has can reflect a…

built up the courage to ask my grandma what they saying. She began to explain to me that they were speaking tongue. As an adult, I think that speaking in tongues is a gift given to older generational church members of the in the South. According to Roxanne Beth Johnson, speaking tongues is faking gibberish, but the true term is glossolalia, which according to Britannica Academic speaking in tongue is the “utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense…

Tongue Laceration A tongue laceration is a cut on the tongue. Over the next 1 to 2 days, you will see that the wound edges appear gray in color. The edges may appear ragged and slightly spread apart. Because of all the normal bacteria in the mouth, these wounds are contaminated, but this is not an infection that needs antibiotics. Most wounds heal with no problems despite their appearance. TREATMENT Most tongue lacerations only go partway through the tongue. This type of injury generally does…

open settings. In these cases, a large number of the people whose first language is not English are judged on the grounds that they experience difficulty speaking with the individuals who communicate in English. In Amy Tan’s article, “The Mother Tongue”, she wrote how being bilingual can affect the individuals. Richard Rodriguez wrote “Aria A Memoir of a Bilingual…

able to fully understand and analyze the excerpt titled “How To Tame A Wild Tongue,” provided by Gloria Anzaldua. When writing, I planned on identifying my audience as the oppressed Chicano people who related to what Anzaldua experienced, and also the possibly unknowingly oppressive Americans and Mexicans. My writing process was sporadic until I could get an outline mapped out. With the outline,…

and accepted as the national norm in English speaking countries. Alterations in pronunciation and spelling that is not standard is associated with being uneducated, therefore stereotyped and frowned upon. This is evident in the essay “Speaking in tongues” the author conveys, Obama’s ability to be flexible with the dialect he use to engage diverse crowds invoked a “great fear” in voters, insisting Obama had “double ways”. The fear comes from believing that the English voice which is dominant and…

Taming Nativity The excerpt, “Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out,” from the essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” by Gloria Anzaldua helps convey the idea of how American cultural imperialism forces Chicanos to abandon their culture and heritage and assimilate into the American way of life. Gloria Anzaldua, a sixth-generation Mexican-American, grew up in Texas 's segregated educational system in 1949, where she experienced discrimination and judgement because of her native…

perspectives on the different accents found across the U.S., and the documentary, “American Tongues”, reveals just how many there are. Everything from the taste of home one gets when a familiar dialect pierces the drone of “normal speech” heard day in and day out, or the enticing words of a Southern Belle attracting anyone within earshot, to the struggles one must endure to modify, or cover up, their native tongue and the harsh stereotypes given to people after speaking only a simple phrase. So…