The people that i talk to the most would be my friends/peers and my mother. Thinking back to conversations I have had with both, they vary quite a bit. My mom speaks very proper, with structures sentences, no (or very little) "slang", and she enunciates quite a bit. My friends and peers on the other hand talk using a lot of "slang" and they talk quite a bit faster. I would say my mother is the one who primarily taught me to speak, so her speaking and conversations hardly vary from the way I was taught, for some reason people my age have stepped away from talking and even writing that way, the way we were taught that is, and now use a lot of slang and even acronyms in our day to day lives.
Me being one of those that use a lot of new words and a lot of those acronyms, I can see how it can shape MY world differently then the way my mom and her generation talk and how that shaped THEIR world. They see the world through one set of eyes and we see it through a totally different set. If you think about it, grammar is everything, we couldn't communicate anything, or get anywhere if we didn't have good grammar, we wouldn't get anywhere.
All this grammar and vocabulary talk gets me in the learning mood! :)
1 comment:
Isn't it interesting to explore the notion of how your perspective for seeing the world and articulating what you say will be vaastly different from your Mother's verbalizations. Whatsmore, do we misunderstand or misinterpret what the other generation says because we are musing about their word choice?
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