Blog 9

For my last blog I'd like to show you guys a silly little quiz I ran into while searching "slang around the world". There are some inappropriate, rude words but I wasn't focused on those, the others made me giggle. 

It's funny to see what others use and what is used as slang in other states and countries. I mean if we were to hear these words, we would definitely have a different connotation of them. I enjoyed reading through this because it's really interesting to me the way our language is the same yet.....completely different. As you look over the quiz, some of the words you may not even know or have an idea what it means or you may recognize the word but see it does not have any relation to the word you thought. That to me is just intriguing. We all have a variety of language either taught or heard but to have different meanings is educating. 

I feel this could affect the world because we all have different ways of communicating it'd be nice to come together and comprehend as a whole that we are truly a melting pot :)

http://www.world-english.org/slangquiz.htm

Thanks for reading!! 

Blog 8

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/26751/

Here is the link to the article I read about language acquisition. I thought this article was extremely educational and interesting. I loved the introduction of this site because it spoke about the "babel fish" which was in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I thought it had a nice sense of humor to it plus it actually would be nice to have one of those, with he exception of the grossness. (I'll let you guys read throug it :). Anyway, I was so interested to check out the 2 stages of language acquisition mainly because this is something I often wonder about. Most of my family speaks English as their second language and it's intriguing to see how they learn language differently than I did. I feel this topic is extremely important to the world and affects it greatLy because this is how people around the globe learn and without being taught every language is dead to us.