Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Day Two: Language Communities

What have you discovered about maneuvering between the two language communities you chose for your paper? Is there anything from ENG110 that you would like reviewed?

13 comments:

David said...

The class today is a new way to communicate through different ways of communicating to network and convince other people in the way you think.(argument)looking forword to the rest of the term

Unknown said...

I just realized how i can't stand writing. Well at least the first paragraph. It's like trying a teacher taking a piece of chalk and making it shriek across the chalk board..

As for the two different types of languages, I had to live a double life until i learned a feasible way to get it done.

Anonymous said...

I learned how easily you go from one language community to the next when most of the time you done even realize when your doing it. It just comes so natural from doing it on a daily basis. You dont realize doing it most of the time until you stop to look at it from an outside point of view. Its very interesting stuff.

Anonymous said...

It's incredible how easily people change between different language communities. No one really realizes or even knows the difference between them. Subconsciously they know but its nothing something they stop and go wow, I just changed the way I speak! I learnded alot today haha.

Anonymous said...

The two language i talked about is basily the same. Cookies and dough are the same thing but i used them different.

Anonymous said...

I move tween the tgwo comunitties depending on the persona nd what part of the country they are from. For example in Texas a slab is an old school car but to a person like me from florida or georgia a slab can be thought of as a house. Its not just language community but region of the country. I think that slag is regional because as african american thats how we are grouped in our community. north south mid west and west coast.

Unknown said...

I have figured out that I talk very differently between my co-workers and my friends. Some of the differences are in the words we use, and some of them are how we use the words. I still find language communities very interesting. I also find it funny that I have never even heard of language communities.

I don't really think there is anything from my first class that I need reviewed, but I definitely think it is cool that you ask us that.

Ian said...

Learning about Language Communities is like discovering gravity. Its always been there, but it has never been defined. But now that I am aware of it, I realize how much I change my language in a day. In fact there are times in the day where I may even be speaking to several different communities at the same time.

A good example of this is talking on the phone to a computer savvy friend, while chatting with a gaming friend on-line using a keyboard and keeping my children in check in person.

It is mind boggling that we are able to, for the most part, seamlessly switch our language and vocabulary to respond to all these different communities and for the most part, are not even aware that we are doing it.

I would image that like other discoveries, which should actually be called realizations, that knowledge of the phenomenon gives power to the people who are aware of it and are able to use it to their advantage.

kenooj said...

more differences than similarities. man, i dont like writing.

Anonymous said...

Since we have been talking about language communities, I have learned how easily we move between them. It comes so naturally that I did not know I did it.

Larry

Anonymous said...

I found out that we switch between communicates so easily everyday that we hardly can tell when we do it really since it happens without us thinking about.
I took english 110 at tcc about 3 years ago. So I don't remember to much of it..

Ronnie said...

It is taxing sometimes, especially when having to translate as you speak, but one on one, I do not have any problems at all communicating from one to the other.

Anonymous said...

That to move through each community you have to know about each community ,and we all do this on a regular basis by judging people...and if you know how to do this you can convey a message to different types of people.