Thursday, September 15, 2011
code switching since a young age
I feel the people who have influenced me the most in the way that I speak would have to be my mom and peers. From the time I was old enough to speak my mom would correct me and tell me the proper way to say things. It’s like she drilled it in my head to the point it became a part of my regular speech with her. But as time went on and I was older and was around my peers I picked up another type of language that I would speak with them that wasn’t as refined. I noticed myself coming in the house from hanging out with my friends and changing the way I spoke because I knew that once I stepped in that door I better not bring my outside speech inside. At year up we talk a lot about code switching I feel that everyone knows a little about code switching even if there not aware of it it’s almost like something that is embedded in you at a young age especially when you hit school age because you have a certain way that you are supposed to address your teachers, elders, family and so forth and as you get older you have to really be prepared to speak proper English in the professional world dealing with your superiors or it could cost you your job and possibly your future.
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