Discussion 2
In the article 5 words, you need to avoid using in email Lily Herman stated “There are few things more frustrating than spending hours writing (and deleting and re-writing) the perfect five sentence email--and then not getting the response you expected. You thought your manager would be thrilled, but instead, she sounds, well, annoyed.” Where she then goes on to explain how using certain words could invalidate or validate what you had said. That it is important to use language in a certain manner in order for people to be keener on what you say because it can speak a lot about you in others perspective. So if there is one thing that I have learned in my past 16 years of life, it is that language does define who I am in a sense. …show more content…
So instead of diving deeper into this discussion I instead decide just to speak in the way that a black person “typically” should speak. I started to add slang into my vocabulary and changed my tone but then something changed, people began to look at me differently, they looked at me with less respect and I even lost some of my friends, some on part and some on theirs and sometimes I would think that maybe this is all in my head but it didn’t feel like it was. For instance, in the article, The Evolution of Language David Graddol stated “linguists will have to work fast to keep up with the changing nature of texts. As texts become shorter, or fragmentary and multimodal strategies of interpretation and ways of reading will change. By stating that it exhibits that even though it might be hard at first to keep up with the factors changing in language it is our duty to keep up with new dialects and as well be able to understand them but, in no way was stated to undermine these dialects are treat the group which says them differently. That whether I or others spoke like a white person, black person or just in different forms of English slangs should not exclude any expectancy but instead, garner new …show more content…
Which is why there is a common misconception that black people speak in an improper ghetto like way whilst white people tend to have a proper way of speech. However, there are people who do not see this as an issue, that whoever states these claims are just victimizing themselves; which is not true. To infer in the article double edge words from The Economist it states “On the other hand, two sociologists, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, argued in a paper published in 2014 that a “culture of victimhood” is replacing the “culture of dignity”. Harvard is currently seeking to rename the faculty members who oversee student halls because their traditional title—“house masters”—reminds some of slavery. Steven Pinker, a psychologist and language scholar at Harvard, tweeted drily that: “1) all words have more than one meaning. 2) Mature adults resist taking pointless offence.” This exhibits that there those who might not see some things like this issue but you cannot ignore the fact that many do when college is changing a traditional title to one that is more forthcoming due to the fact there have been many voices voicing this complaint. Moreover, as Shane Ferro stated in This One Piece of Viral Workplace Advice for Women is Actually a Terrible Idea is that “to use specific words is not
In the article 5 words, you need to avoid using in email Lily Herman stated “There are few things more frustrating than spending hours writing (and deleting and re-writing) the perfect five sentence email--and then not getting the response you expected. You thought your manager would be thrilled, but instead, she sounds, well, annoyed.” Where she then goes on to explain how using certain words could invalidate or validate what you had said. That it is important to use language in a certain manner in order for people to be keener on what you say because it can speak a lot about you in others perspective. So if there is one thing that I have learned in my past 16 years of life, it is that language does define who I am in a sense. …show more content…
So instead of diving deeper into this discussion I instead decide just to speak in the way that a black person “typically” should speak. I started to add slang into my vocabulary and changed my tone but then something changed, people began to look at me differently, they looked at me with less respect and I even lost some of my friends, some on part and some on theirs and sometimes I would think that maybe this is all in my head but it didn’t feel like it was. For instance, in the article, The Evolution of Language David Graddol stated “linguists will have to work fast to keep up with the changing nature of texts. As texts become shorter, or fragmentary and multimodal strategies of interpretation and ways of reading will change. By stating that it exhibits that even though it might be hard at first to keep up with the factors changing in language it is our duty to keep up with new dialects and as well be able to understand them but, in no way was stated to undermine these dialects are treat the group which says them differently. That whether I or others spoke like a white person, black person or just in different forms of English slangs should not exclude any expectancy but instead, garner new …show more content…
Which is why there is a common misconception that black people speak in an improper ghetto like way whilst white people tend to have a proper way of speech. However, there are people who do not see this as an issue, that whoever states these claims are just victimizing themselves; which is not true. To infer in the article double edge words from The Economist it states “On the other hand, two sociologists, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, argued in a paper published in 2014 that a “culture of victimhood” is replacing the “culture of dignity”. Harvard is currently seeking to rename the faculty members who oversee student halls because their traditional title—“house masters”—reminds some of slavery. Steven Pinker, a psychologist and language scholar at Harvard, tweeted drily that: “1) all words have more than one meaning. 2) Mature adults resist taking pointless offence.” This exhibits that there those who might not see some things like this issue but you cannot ignore the fact that many do when college is changing a traditional title to one that is more forthcoming due to the fact there have been many voices voicing this complaint. Moreover, as Shane Ferro stated in This One Piece of Viral Workplace Advice for Women is Actually a Terrible Idea is that “to use specific words is not