Blog Assignment 6

The essay I read is A Way With Words, or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language by Timothy Barranco. One of the quotations used in the essay is "Variations within English - or any language - are normal, learned phenomena that exist as regional and social dialects" (Taylor 84) in the first paragraph of the last page. The author uses a direct quote from Dr. Orlando Taylor to strongly emphasize that texting language is merely a variation of English, which is no more than normal. And it supports the main idea that using texting language is appropriate.
The paraphrase I found is in the second paragraph of the last page, which says "Some scholars have noted that the popularity of txt can recall poetic examples of non-standard spelling (Shortis)." The author uses the parapharse because it is a new point of the topic and can be supported by details and examples. It refers to the literary figures such as E.E. Cummings, Willian Faulkner, Charles Dickens and Shakespeare who use numerous altered language in literature. Also, it states the benefit of using texting language by arguing that it can induce the poetic potential. And it makes a strong point of supporting the use of texting language.

Blog Assignment 5

In most of the circumstances, the history we know are written by the winners. However, the winners, which later becomes authorities, usually write the history with their prejudice and consider the benefits of them or their groups first. This situation was extremely notable in ancient China when the empires took charge of everything. For instance, the empire thought that they lived in the center of the world and regarded the people living far away as barbarians. However, it is now proved that where they used to live was not the center of the world. Neither was those people living far away from them barbarians.
The history can be totally different if the losers are writing it. However, everyone has prejudice while looking at this world, and no one can be perfectly subjective. The losers would also stand for their own benefit and have a different bias. Actually, I would rather read the history from the winner's side, since I insist that for most of the time, there is a reason why winners are winners. Therefore, the view of the winners will probably be more close to the fact. Nevertheless, I would like to access the history through the view of both the winners and the losers to get a better understanding.