I totally support the whole idea of this text because it's completely right according to myself, by the fact that it uses the language variations as a 'sign of resilency and creativity'. It take into concideration a lot of examples of Arabizi's and Hindi's which most are from Canada, but more further than the examples of the variations the author is trying to tell us how the language is changing within' time thanks to people that speak english as a second language, the combination of their first language wether it's chinese, spanish, arabic, japanese, it will make some changes on their english, pronounciation, grammar mistakes and even new words, thats why language is changing along with the time. However there will always be ignorant people, close-minded that will think that this variations are bad, but as the sociolinguistics say it's an improve.
The author is using an objective tone, giving clear example of the language variations seen in Canada, this text is non-fiction published by Toronto Star.
Dan, I think your blog is very clear and easy to read. However, there are some posts with important information you're missing:
ReplyDelete1. Weekly summary on LANGUAGE AND GENDER (content + GENDER ADS activity)
2. Weekly summary on LITERATURE: TEXTS AND CONTEXT (content+online investigation on Harper Lee's life and times+chapter 1 question-guided analysis)
You must UPDATE your blog with this information ASAP. I'll be checking again next week!