This is Sandie Centre back with another blog, and today we’d like to discuss grammar. There are extremely fine lines when it comes to the breaking of grammatical rules. Here at Sandie Centre, we tend to stick to one rule when this issue arises in our blogs, that is “If you’re texting its ur, if you’re writing its you’re”.

Today’s society has embraced many different idea’s regarding grammar. In this century, people consider texting a language. Texting has brought short forms into the lives of individuals, such as: “lol” for laugh out loud, “res” for respect, “rents” for parents, or “g” for guy. Just because people text this way, doesn’t mean that it’s impactful towards someones writing language.

The TED Talk above presented by John McWhorter, a linguistic, discusses how texting is only improving language. In the TED Talk, McWhorter states “lol acts as a marker of empathy and accommodation, what linguistics call pragmatic particles, and which exist in many languages”(Huong-Ha, 2013, Para.7).

At Sandie Centre, we believe that grammatical rules are before our century, and we are moving away from grammatical norms every day. We also believe that texting language doesn’t bleed through to writing language, and the ability to properly write and expand in writing language isn’t affected by texting language. People don’t write “ur” in an essay in exchange for “you’re”, but they do in texting, which is completely correct to do. The whole idea behind texting is to contact someone fast due to not having enough time to contact them over the phone, so for someone to use short forms and contractions on a communication level thats over social media that nearly everyone understands is not harming grammar as a whole. Norms throughout the world adopt and grow into more diverse and accepting norms that embrace different kinds of thinking and learning. Grammar is thought out and planned by the individual texting or writing.

Sandie Centre strives to understand current issues, and issues that will be up and coming. The issue at hand regarding grammar rules is not an issue that will affect society, and therefore just like other cultural and social norms, they are made to be broken and to adopt to new idea’s as our world evolves into something new.

Thank you for taking time to look through our blog regarding grammatical rules, please leave you’re opinion on the matter in the comments below!

References

McWhorter, J. (n.d.). Txtng is killing language. JK!!! Retrieved on January 14 2019, from https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk

The linguistic miracle of texting: John McWhorter at TED2013. (2014, January 21). Retrieved on January 14 2019, from https://blog.ted.com/the-linguistic-miracle-of-texting-john-mcwhorter-at-ted2013/

This is Sandie Centre reporting back for another blog entry, and today were here to discuss whether or not grade 12 university English should be a requirement for entry to university programs. Now, this is an extremely controversial topic as many people have persuading arguments for and against. I personally believe that grade 12 university English should be a requirement for all university programs as much of university is essay writing. Grade 12 university English allows for students to expand their essay writing for the fourth year with an edge that will push them to succeed once they begin writing at the post secondary level. Every class in university, regardless if their a core English class, requires the need for English as they all delve into essay writing and critical thinking skills. English at the grade 12 level teaches individuals how to read an article in a more affective manner, which is major when it comes to post-secondary classes as much of the work will consist of reading textbooks.

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

This quote conveyed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, a philosopher and Professor at the University Of Cambridge, was brought to light as Wittgenstein proclaims that the language we use determines whether or not we are clearly understood (Sterling,2014, para. 6). With this being compared to grade 12 university English, as individuals enter university and they don’t have a base for understanding the language of others, they will not clearly understand. Grade 12 university English teaches individuals the rights and wrongs of writing, language, and proper ways of gathering information through reading; without this course students will be lost and loose marks throughout their writing skills for one, and not understand what the professors are talking about if their language is not at its full potential. Ludwig Wittgenstein attempts to get the point across to beings of the world that one must initially fulfill requirements of critical thinking, affective communication, grammar, analyzing and interpretation. These individual skills are principle to obtain as an adolescent that can only be obtained by being apart of a grade 12 university English.

In conclusion, grade 12 university English should be, and will stay, a requirement for university applications as it’s not only needed in the classroom, but in every day life to obtain proper critical thinking, affective communication, grammar, analyzing and interpretation abilities.

Thank you for reading this entry of Sandie Centre, leave comments with your opinions!

References

Should grade 12 University level English be a requirement for entry into all university programs? (n.d.). Retrieved on January 11th 2019, from https://essayforum.com/writing/grade-university-level-english-requirement-76571/

Sterling, L. C. (2014, November 01). “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Retrieved on January 11th 2019, from https://medium.com/@lcsterling/the-limits-of-my-language-mean-the-limits-of-my-world-68b94fc1d119

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