Jamila Lyiscott is a girl which could speak English in
three tongue and she decided to treat all three of her languages as equals
because she is articulate. Who controls
the articulation ? English language is a multifaceted oration subject to
indefinite transformation. She is a tri-lingual orator which used differently
in home, school and friends. She could speak like “What’s good ?” “Whatagwan”
and “Hello”. Sometimes she is consistent with the language which is used now
then switch it up to reduce the boredom. Sometimes she fight back two tongues,
while she uses the other one in the classroom and when she mistakenly mix them
up and feel crazy like she is cooking in the bathroom. She do know that she had
to borrow American language because hers was stolen. However, the western cannot expect
her to speak their history wholly while hers is broken. These words are spoken
by someone who is simply fed up with the Eurocentric ideals of season and the
reason she speaks a composite version of their language is because hers was
raped away along with her history. That is why she speaks broken English and
perhaps it can remind them that theirs current state is not a mystery. She just
tired of the negative image and nonsensical racial disparity that made her
people mad. She emphasize that not to be confusion and hesitation because this
is not a promotion of ignorance but this is a linguistic celebration.
Mr. Walker was trying to explain about new mania of the world after Beatles mania, sport mania, and religious mania. Mania can be good, can be alarming, or can be deadly. The new mania of the world is mania for learning English. Chinese people learn English by screaming. There are 2 billion of them who trying to learn English worldwide in India, Latin America, India and most of all in China. Chinese start learning English in the third grade. That is why China become the world’s largest English speaking country. Why English ? in one word “Opportunity” for having better life, a job, a school and for putting better food on the table. Imagine a student’s life depends on English test which the score of the test literally determine her future. English is the world's second language, your native language is your life but with English you can become part of a wider conversation. The world has other universal languages such as mathematics is the language of science, music is the langu...
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