This week in class we discussed racism in language. Linguistic profiling occurs a lot. As I said in discussion, I'm not surprised by this at all. It's pretty easy to tell that something like that is going to occur. So many people in this world are crooked. I've seen so much dishonesty from people I never even would have believed it from. People will always be profiled, as sad as that is.
As far as the video goes. Part one of the video was actually pretty funny at times. I thought it was great that he went around doing research on language. What I found funny was how basic some of his research was. He was talking to teenagers about their instant messaging habits. There were a lot of those phrases that I've been using since middle school. It had never been pointed out to me that maybe some people don't know what those things mean.
As far as the Midwest goes, I never would have thought that they would be considered the area with no accent. People stereotype the southern states to have "country" accents, which is not always true. There are plenty of people without accents of this kind. I guess that also ties into linguistic profiling, but that's always a stereotype that has upset me. I've hated to be made out like a hick or redneck. I'm sure several people hate to be profiled like that, though.
I didn't really know what to expect from this class. We've stretched language in every way. I figured we would just talk about how languages come about. After learning about "linguistic profiling" and "globish", I've gained an interest that I've never had. It's so interesting that you we can go so in-depth with this particular topic. We've still got a whole semester too.
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I also didn't know what this class was actually going to be about but so far so good. The funniest thing I find about the issue of the "country" accent is that if Florida is in the south then why do they not have a "country" accent. I also never thought about the midwest being the land of no accent. But anyway I agree with the whole idea of this class making me think about language in a different way then ever before.
One thing that I learned is that although we don't realize it we all have an accent. When I went up north to visit family people kept asking where I was from. I didn't think I had an accent but I guess was because I had only been around people in the south that for the most part spoke like me. At the same time, I could easily pick up on someone from up north when they come to Nashville because they sound different. Now I agree that everyone in the south does not sound country but we do, for the most part sound different when it comes to comparing ourselves to people in the north.
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