Using our own Dialects


            In class we are learning various things that are very interesting and sometimes extremely shocking. Specifically this week, we learned about he importance of dialects through two different assigned reading and class discussions. One of the reading SRTOL had really good points on how as English students we should be allowed to not only communicate in English but also in our native dialects. Not only that the reading also talked about something that really caught my attention was that we associate speaking English correctly with an image of a wealthy white person and most of the times a wealthy white male. I had never though or even heard the saying “Writing right is Writing White” until it was said in our class during our discussion.

         It’s honestly really crazy to see how we can judge a person who isn’t white based on how they speak English and straight up say they aren’t speaking English correctly when most of the time we understand them! Reading this declaration I was so pro using our dialect in English to allow everyone to comfortable express them selves and let people hear their voice until I read the counter argument.

            After reading the counter argument I realized that maybe we shouldn’t write the way we want or in our personal discourse or dialect. It felt so weird to ready such informal writing like that. It might be because I’m so internally oppressed that I can’t detach from my oppressed nature. I will admit that I understood the writing in the second reading and I identify with most of it because the language use can be linked to some of my personal discourses.

      But that isn’t the only reason why I think that maybe we shouldn’t be using our own dialects and discourse language be cause not everyone can actually know every language/discourse/dialect that exists. Its simply impossible. Communicating in different dialects can create barriers in communication when in reality we should try to build communication and understanding between individuals but them it comes to accepting all parts of an individual, which includes their dialects, or discourse language.

       Over all it is very complicated to actually take a side in this debate. I love writing in my own voice but then again I feel like even in this blog post I am not exactly writing in my voice even though it feel like I am. I feel like I have many voices .For example, I have a super academic one that I use in class or at an interview. A semi academic voice, which I am using right now, and my voice I use with my friends. So I understand how dialects and discourse specific language plays a role in my life but I can also see what problems it can cause for people outside my discourse.