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The Internet gives us as an audience a variety of different types of websites that can help construct our lives using different types of languages, dialects, and ways of speaking. We see new ways of writing and speaking just by associating ourselves with people on the Internet. We are able to completely change our personality and the person that we truly are because the Internet gives a mysterious vibe to us all. We can discuss creative ideas and thoughts that we might be embarrassed or too scared to discuss to others in person.  The bet.com website, gives people the option to express their emotions about different views on recent news, music, and politics. Having a place to do this is comforting to know that you can be whoever you want to be.

 In the following reading, Knadler possesses a emotion toward people not having to be afraid of who they really are and how they speak without having to feel offended or ashamed. "Finding the ideal community where she no longer has to explain or apologize for her "Blackness" and where others understand her as she understands herself"(Knadler 236). There are many similarities that are discussed within this reading and also on the bet.com website. They both are able to give their audiences the ability to be who they want to be, and if writing in Ebonics is there thing, and then go right ahead.  On the Bet website, many users use their free will to speak as they wish willingly, for example many users use phrases such as, “ Uz hoes be trippin on nuttin you got.”

Although many speak as they wish, the Internet still doesn’t dismiss all racial comments. "There is still going to be racism on the Internet, even though we don't know who they are. With in black culture, kinky is usually negatively connected words used to describe or express an aesthetic evaluation of hair texture that is tightly coiled or nappy"(Spellers 225). This is able to portray the ability to be whom you want to but, there are many who still feel racism will never end. 

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The website that i analyzed was www.bet.com. This website is a place to update on new music hits, chat about recent news, and videos. This website is a mainstream for the television channel BET ( Black Entertainment Television).  One article entitled 50 cent targets DJ Khaled's Mother in New video, by Anthony Springer Jr., states that 50 cent used his music to "dis" and "trash" DJ Khaled's mother because they had "beef" with one another. In 50 cent's short clip, "Im a psychic", he says, " I'm a f***ed up n***a, you should do something to me." This porclaims AAVE because he is showing just how bad a** he is using braggadio, and saying im so bad, I would love to see you try and do something to me. 

Also, in this song 50 cent portrays braggadio again, using much of the same harsh words to set his enemies mind straight. "I just wanna tell you what a psychic told me, I'm not the kind n***a you shoud f*** with, I'm special." Though DJ Khaled has not yet responded to this very disturbing rap, he has raised the furry in some of his audiences. According to kEYJa, featured in a blog discussing the song, she states," 50 be trippin he need to start acting his age and quite acting like a child." Here she used "trippin" as a word to say that 50 is messing around or doesnt know what he is saying. This is used as AAVE to incorporate slang into the language.

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According to Leah Zuidema's "Myth Education: Rationale and Strategies For Teaching Against Linguistic Prejudice", Standard English is better than other varieties. This myth categorizes people into how they speak, the dialects they use, and what “Standard English” is really portrayed to be.            

“ The belief that ‘good’ English is the everyday spoken language of the most educated and intelligent people.” This statement summarizes the thoughts of many because of the way we were brought up to think. Many people who were taught white English believe that the word “ain’t” is not proper or appropriate. We judge people by the way they speak and write, we tend to believe we know the person from just having a casual conversation. By the words we use, we can influence and portray ourselves as intelligent. In my experience, I have indeed found myself judging others by the way they talk. If someone uses what I feel is “bad grammar” such as, “ain’t, ya’all, or double negatives, I make the assumption that they have learned very little in English class and that they are dumb or stupid.

            My literacy log has shown many similarities and differences to this idea that Zuidema has portrayed orally and written. My everyday conversations with people through the Internet is very different because the way people write on communication sites like Facebook and Instant messanger is abbreviated and put into incomplete sentences. Yet, if you were about to fill out an application for a college, you would use “good” grammar, complete sentences, and intelligent words.

            When we were in grade school, we were taught to speak with respect and to address adults with “Sir” and “Ma’am”, and we were to always say please and thank you. We were corrected to ask “May I” instead of “Can I”, which taught us to believe that non-standard English is bad. We know depict Standard English to be anything but what is appropriate. When speaking to authorities or important figures in our lives we apologize for bad grammar and correct ourselves if done so.

            In conclusion, Standard English is taught to us to be the only appropriate way of speaking, which is a myth. People get categorized as being stupid and dumb from the way they speak. They are looked at to be inferior to people that speak Standard English because of the words, phrases, and dialect they speak. Should people really decipher how intelligent you are by the way we talk?