Mac Jeffrey
31 August 2015
Prof. Young
English 1100
Quotes

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" Quotes

 

"Attacks on one's form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the first amendment. Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out."

 

 

"And because we internalize how our language has been used against us by the dominant culture, we use our language differences against each other."

 

"Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish where I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate."

Mac Jeffrey
31 August 2015
Prof. Young
English 1100

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

 

 1) The opening scene is of Anzaldua in a dentist office. She is being operated on but she is giving the dentist much trouble because her tongue is pushing out everything he is putting into her mouth. The dentist gets very frustrated and tells her to control her tongue. This is a great representation of the story she then tells because all her life she had been told to speak a different way. The dentist in the introduction represent those people who tried to change her in her life.
 

2) Although I do not speak much Spanish and it was hard for me to understand those parts, it made sense for her to use it. I think her purpose was to bring you into her world and make you realize what she had to go through. The story might have been difficult to understand at times, but it was a glimpse into how hard it was for her.

3) I think it can because most people do not speak Chicano which makes it nonstandard.

4) For certain crowds speaking in Academic English is necessary. It is probably a safer bet because it is the language everyone is taught and it will help you be taken more seriously.

5) There are many different ways of speaking in English. For example, most black people talk different than white people although there are many exceptions to this.

 

6) I think everyone speaks differently around different groups of people. Most of us would not talk to our parents the same way we talk to our friends. I definitely use different language around my friends because we are a part of a certain culture among ourselves.

 

7) When I am with my friends, I use words and phrases that can mostly only be understood by our generation. When I am around my parents or elders, I use more standard English because they would not understand me if I talked to them the way I talk to my friends.

8) This means that your language is a big part of who you are. More than language, your culture of where you are from makes you who you are. No matter what language you are speaking, you will behave based on how you were taught to act based on where you are from.

9) The conclusion ties back to the main idea of the introduction. It talks about how there is a battle between the languages just like in the introduction, only here it says it in a much more concrete way without any symbolism.

10) Absolutely. The language you speak basically determines who you can hang out with. Like I mentioned before, the language you speak has a lot to do with your culture, so there is also a correlation between your language and the way you dress or how you spend your free time.

11) Having an identity is extremely important. If you have an identity, you know exactly who you are and you are not worried about trying to fit into a certain group. Anzaldua talks about this throughout the entire article since she is constantly talking about the different dialects and what makes them who they are.

 





Getting to Know You

 

 

1) I am a basketball player. I have been playing since I was nine years old and now I will be playing for the team at FDU. It really is a dream come true to be playing college basketball, I have had that goal for a very long time. I hope to one day be a Division 1 college coach and now that I am a college player I feel like I am one step closer to that goal.

 

      

 

 

2) Besides basketball, the thing I am most passionate about is working with young kids. If I don't ever become a coach, my backup plan is to be an elementary school teacher. My high school had a program called Student Facilitators which allowed a high school student to be paired up with an elementary school student and help them with their school work. I was in the program for two years and I got a lot out of it.

 

 

3) My full name is Mackenzie but everyone calls me Mac. I have been called out time and time again in my life for having a girl's name, but I am used to it by now. You can get many nicknames out of the name Mac including Big Mac, Mac Truck, and Mac Daddy.

 

4) When I write, I normally just sit down at my computer or with a piece of paper and write my opinions on whatever I am talking about. I don't want to say that I just write whatever comes to my head, but I like to let it flow naturally.

 

5) In high school I was required to use to five paragraph structure every year. Most of my teachers required me to make an outline and a few rough drafts to go along with the final draft. I learned about grammar and sentence structure my senior year.

 

6) I listen to many different kinds of music, but mostly rap and classic rock. My favorite artist right now is Drake because I think he is very musically versatile and a lot of his lyrics really speak to me.

 

 

7) I use social media very often. Like many people my age, the first thing I do when I get bored is go to my phone and look at all my social media pages. The one I use the most is probably Instagram, and I also use Snapchat and Twitter very frequently.

 

 

8)  I am hoping to learn a bit more about the nuances of writing.

 

9) I would say I am a B writer. Everyone tells me that I am a very good writer but it has never been something that I enjoyed and I don't feel like it comes naturally to me. Maybe I have never enjoyed it because I always write what my teacher tells me to and never by choice.