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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."~James Dean

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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."~James Dean

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I believe that

I believe that we

I believe that we will

I believe that we will win

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"A language is just a dialect with a army backing it up."-Wise man

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This teacher was slightly harsh because of the words choice. He/She said they were going to “make” the student write in SWE. The teacher was also slightly racist when saying that SWE was basically standard white english because it was created by powerful and successful white people

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This teacher was slightly harsh because of the words choice. He/She said they were going to “make” the student write in SWE. The teacher was also slightly racist when saying that SWE was basically standard white english because it was created by powerful and successful white people

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I don't know whether anybody's told you this or not,
   but when you're in a college English class you're basically
   studying a foreign dialect. This dialect is called 'Standard
   Written English. ... From talking with you and reading
   your essays, I've concluded that your own primary dialect
   is [one of three variants of SBE common to our region]. Now,
   let me spell something out in my official Teacher-voice:
   The SBE you're fluent in is different from SWE in all kinds
   of important ways. Some of these differences are
   grammatical — for example, double negatives are OK
   in Standard Black English but not in SWE, and SBE
   and SWE conjugate certain verbs in totally different
   ways. Other differences have more to do with style —
   for instance, Standard Written English tends to use a lot
   more subordinate clauses in the early parts of sentences,
   and it sets off most of these early subordinates with commas,
   and, under SWE rules, writing that doesn't do this is "choppy."
   There are tons of differences like that. How much of this
   stuff do you already know?
   [STANDARD RESPONSE: some variation on "I know from
   the grades and comments on my papers that English profs
   don't think I'm a good writer."]
   Well, I've got good news and bad news. There are some
   otherwise smart English profs who aren't very aware that
   there are real dialects of English other than SWE, so when
   they're reading your papers they'll put, like, "Incorrect
   conjugation" or "Comma needed" instead of "SWE
   conjugates this verb differently" or "SWE calls for a comma
   here." That's the good news — it's not that you're a
   bad writer, it's that you haven't learned the special
   rules of the dialect they want you to write in. Maybe
   that's not such good news, that they were grading you
   down for mistakes in a foreign language you didn't even
   know was a foreign language. That they won't let you write
   in SBE. Maybe it seems unfair. If it does, you're not going
   to like this news: I'm not going to let you write in SBE
   either. In my class, you have to learn and write in SWE.
   If you want to study your own dialect and its rules and history
   and how it's different from SWE, fine — there are some
   great books by scholars of Black English, and I'll help you
   find some and talk about them with you if you want. But
   that will be outside class. In class — in my English class —
   you will have to master and write in Standard Written English,
   which we might just as well call "Standard White English,"
   because it was developed by white people and is used
   by white people, especially educated, powerful white people.
   [RESPONSES by this point vary too widely to standardize.]
   I'm respecting you enough here to give you what I believe is
   the straight truth. In this country, SWE is perceived as the
   dialect of education and intelligence and power and prestige,
   and anybody of any race, ethnicity, religion, or gender
   who wants to succeed in American culture has got to be able
   to use SWE. This is How It Is. You can be glad about it or sad
   about it or deeply pissed off. You can believe it's racist and
   unjust and decide right here and now to spend every waking
   minute of your adult life arguing against it, and maybe you
   should, but I'll tell you something: If you ever want those
   arguments to get listened to and taken seriously, you're
   going to have to communicate them in SWE, because SWE is
   the dialect our country uses to talk to itself. African
   Americans who've become successful and important in
   U.S. culture know this; that's why King's and X's and
   Jackson's speeches are in SWE, and why Morrison's and
   Angelou's and Baldwin's and Wideman's and West's books
   are full of totally ass-kicking SWE, and why black judges
   and politicians and journalists and doctors and teachers
   communicate professionally in SWE. Some of these people
   grew up in homes and communities where SWE was the
   native dialect, and these black people had it much easier
   in school, but the ones who didn't grow up with SWE
   realized at some point that they had to learn it and
   become able to write in it, and so they did. And [INSERT
   NAME HERE], you're going to learn to use it, too, because
   I am going to make you.

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LAtin

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is dis written in da SWE

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Speak properly and we won't have a problem

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Speak properly and we won't have a problem

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"Use educated things to sound educated" sort of things.

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"Use educated things to sound educated" sort of things.

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I never really thought about the English language being spoken in different ways. I guess this relates to the way that there are multiple language around the world that are linked to one language in particular. I think French and Haitian is an example of this.

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I never really thought about the English language being spoken in different ways. I guess this relates to the way that there are multiple language around the world that are linked to one language in particular. I think French and Haitian is an example of this.

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i like this way better

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It's interesting to read something so in depth about something so specific.  

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It's interesting to read something so in depth about something so specific.  

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The speaker is brutally honest about SWE and SBE.

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i think it is smart of the teacher to ask all the students to write like that

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i think it is smart of the teacher to ask all the students to write like that

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ofI think that it is interesting that there are so many way

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ofI think that it is interesting that there are so many way

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It was

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i kinda teared up

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It's interesting to see how many different forms of English there are and how different they can be. 

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It's interesting to see how many different forms of English there are and how different they can be. 

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Seems fair enough. It's one of those "use 

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Seems fair enough. It's one of those "use 

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very true

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I think he has a point about how we must use SWE to communicate with america, simply because that is how we communicate with ourselves

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I think he has a point about how we must use SWE to communicate with america, simply because that is how we communicate with ourselves

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very true. I think he was good at just getting the point across with facts and straight up truth, no matter how sensitive the topic was

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very true. I think he was good at just getting the point across with facts and straight up truth, no matter how sensitive the topic was

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I didn't know there were so many different ways of writing in the same language. 

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I didn't know there were so many different ways of writing in the same language. 

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This is a very interesting passage because I never realized how different SWE can be from SBE. I acually never knew there was a SBE

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This is a very interesting passage because I never realized how different SWE can be from SBE. I acually never knew there was a SBE

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it was a struggle

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i didn't like it. It was so long that I lost interest and motivation to read while paying attention

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i didn't like it. It was so long that I lost interest and motivation to read while paying attention

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It was interesting how far he could branch out from his original subject but the essay as a whole was hard to focus on

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It was interesting how far he could branch out from his original subject but the essay as a whole was hard to focus on

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long but funny

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it took forever to read

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Becca

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The article was very difficult to understand.

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The article was very difficult to understand.

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Sassy but hard to read

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It was really confusing to read but it was amusing as well.

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Very confusing. The grammar and word choice killed my interest

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Very confusing. The grammar and word choice killed my interest

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Very confusing.. and hard to understand 

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Very confusing.. and hard to understand 

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This essay was very hard to understand but it 

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This essay was very hard to understand but it 