The Truth About Change

      For the assignment this week I read the article "The Truth About Change." I also skimmed through some of the other articles and I found all of them interesting . This one in particular focused and how language has been changing and evolving through out the years. Realizing how language is evolving throughout the spread of slang, they way it spreads, and the why vowels changing affects the way we speak made me interested.

                Something that I learned I didn't know before, was how changing language spread so fast. Its starts in heavily populated metropolitan areas and then spreads out farther and farther eventually to the rural areas. This makes sense because many things start in bigger cites or more populated areas but I just never really thought about it before. Something else I learned was that women often lead the way in the language change which also makes sense because women are always taking ha ha.

  Something I would like to learn more about would be how different social settings change how people speak . Research more about how people change the way they talk in different groups. People want to speak like their friends and acquaintances as the article explains. This makes sense because people want to be accepted in social groups and fit in. I think a study or experiment with putting a person in different groups and seeing how they change the way they speak to "fit in" would be interesting to see. We could purposely have very different ways the groups speak to study this. I really think this would be something interesting to study.

      I think I will use the information I took from this article in many ways. I'm sure during conversations I'll me more attuned to slang or words that are being used that previously were not common. I will notice more how others change the way they talk depending on who they are with and how those people talk. Also I think I will try to pronunciate more. I think this article made me realize how we can be changing languages just by the way we use our vowels and I just think pronunciation is something we all need to be trying to do. Communication is key in this world but as the article states language changing is inevitable and will always be evolving.