Speaking in my Mother-Tongue

There ain’t no such thing as standard english. Like, I can say what eva I want and still get what I’m tryin to say understood by who eva I’m talking to. I kno that in certain situations I have to speak formally but when I’m at home, I just be chillen and speaking with my mom this way. Yeah, I feel mad weird typin like this cause I kno in school, assignments are suppose to be written in a certain way. But I ask myself, what’s wrong with the way that I’m speakin now? All I did was just drop a few letters. I don’t necessarily speak straight black English like in June Jordan’s “Nobody Means More To Me Than You” essay. But I also understand why Orwell said, people take the meaning out of a sentence by adding all those big words. Like when people talk to me and start throwin in words that I have to go and look up afterward, they automatically lose my attention cause I don’t know what your sayin, and if you want to get technical, you prolly don’t even know what your sayin. Well I cant speak for adults cause most already been to college and have a lota education under their belts but if you are a teenager talking to me like you forty outside of class, I’m gonna lose you cause I’m in my regular mode right now and your killin my vibe.  So that’s why I’m saying, standard english ain’t real.

 

Well, that was quite a challenge typing in the way that I speak at home. Everything that I was saying felt wrong. I’m almost ashamed to post it. I know that I am supposed to embrace my language but I just don’t like to mix it with school. I think this assignment is very similar to Anzaldua’s experience because she also switched to multiple languages when coming into contact with certain people. In a way, this could be similar to June Jordan’s essay and structure of Black English but I don’t feel that the way I speak at home is complete Black English. I think that it falls in between what is known as Standard English and Black English. I say this because in June Jordan’s essay, Black English sounds more southern much like in the Color Purple. I know for a fact that I don’t speak like that. I like to consider the way I speak more of a city-like Black English, if that makes sense. In a way, it kind of felt good to be able to write the way that I normally speak but it was more weird and uncomfortable due to the fact that it is a school assignment. I think that I got my idea across very clearly with my language. I made sure to stay on point and not completely blind side my readers of what I was intending to do. I believe that society can live without Standard English as long as the citizens can clearly get their points across with their mother-tongue.