Lessons Learned: Different Englishes I Use

I believe everyone uses diferent Englishes. I use different Englishes all the time. I use them when I am at home, at school, and when I am around people I know or people I just met.



When I am at home with my family, I am more relaxed and myself. I feel comfortable talking to them without knowing I will offend anyone. Sometimes when I am hanging out with my twin, we use slang. One day my sister and I were lying in bed and listening to music. We started to laugh because we didn't know the words to the song. She kept saying "Hey Dawg stop it, you're killing it.: I tend to use words like "dawg, homedog or I gotta bounce" all the time at home because i know my family won't loom at me like if I was a crazy person making up stuff.

When I am at school I use different Englishes. I am more respectful when I am talking to my professors. When I talk to the professors I try to sound proper and sophisticated and not like I'm at home or with friends. I never use slang with my professors. I found out using slang with teachers wasn't a good idea when I was in high svhool. I was a sophomore in high svhool and one of my teachers was talking to the class. She was informing the class about the CASHEE exam that every student had to take in order to graduate. She was telling us some of the material we will have to learn and what the consequences would be if we did not pass. She had told us that we would have to attend a Saturday class to focus on the subject wefailed. I thought she was joking, so I said out loud "Shut up, mp way" and the whole class was looking at me in shock and the teacher sent me to the deans office. I learned my lesson after that incident. When I am not in class and hanging out in the dorms I can be myself but at the same time I am still respectful because my friends don't know me as well as my family.

when I am around people I don't know or just met I use a different kind of Englishes. I am more considerate and respectful when I talk to them. I am a little shy when first people, so I won't talk as much with them then I do with friends. When I am at work I meet so many ne people. When I talk to them I am nice and kind. I don't talk to them about my personal life; I just greet hem and thank them for coming. Many times with my managers I act the same way I do with my teachers. I try and use appropriate words. I never use slang with my bosses because it makes me look bad. A situation happened with a girl I knew and her boss , when the girl told the boss something very disrepectful using slang and her boss fired her right on the spot. I knew never to talk to any of my managers in a disrespectful way because of the consequences but that incident reinforced that in heard NEVER to do anything like that.

My language changes in these situations because I respect people who are older and more knowledgeable than I am. When I am with my friends and family though, we like to act goofy, I think that makes us more comfortable together.

At home, school and with people I don't know or who I just met I use these differnet types of Englishes.