ong blog 13

Ong's article that we read for this blog, was talking about how writting is a type of technollogy. How writting dumbed people down in a sense because we no longer need to remember stuff in our brains to tell a story orally since we can just write it down and no longer need to remember details in oder to retell the story. I feel as though texting and cell phones have done the same thing. With cell phones we have everyones number all in the same spot, we no longer need to remember phone numbers, because all we have to do is go to our contacts and hit call, rather than take the time to remember the number, dial the number, and so on. So cell phones like writting is taking away from our memory skills. Texting I feel is really affecting writting and peoples intellegience because text lingo is so different than normal speech. It is almost as though it is a foriegn language that one has to relearn. So now not only do we have to no longer remember common things like before but we have to learn a whole new way of writting the texting lingo. As technogoly keeps advancing i think people will continue to become dumber in a sense because they are able to loose their brain less and less and are no longer forced to use their brain for such things such as memory. I am intrested to see where we will be 1o years from now, with the new technology, will we even have schools or will everything be through a computer?

yo momma so dumb.. she thought a quaterback was a refund.

The articles that we read over the past week and half were both about the different dialects that students use and learn while in school. They discused whether or not there should be a set standard English that is taught or whether a person should be able to speak with a dialect thats unquie to them, and what they feel comforatable with. Elbow's article was about how students should be taught to use one system of writting and one way of talking in English. Where as Smitherman thinks that everyone should be able to use their own dialect because thats what makes them unquie. Smithermans article was all about Eubonics and why and how it actaully became part of the "English Language" or why we can compare it to english. I would have to agree with Smitherman. I think that everyone should be able to talk how they want. However, I do think that there is a time and a place where you can talk in a dialect of your choice and when you should speak using proper English; as we discussed in class. For example, if two people were interviewing for a job, for the example we'll have both people be African American, and one used Eubonics and one used proper English, the person using proper English would be more likely to get the job because they would sound more intellegent. Since proper English is what is widely known and taught in school, where as Eubonics is what is picked up on the streets, or with in certain communites, and the interviewer may not know what you are tyring to say. I do think everyone should be entitld to talk as they please with respect to the situation.