Tuesday 29 September 2015

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/29/refugee-law-experts-urge-malcolm-turnbull-to-let-detention-centre-staff-speak-to-un

Both of these articles display the importance of the refugee crisis in differnt ways. The first article is about a woman in thornbury who is is preparing to go to a refugee camp to give them suport. she talks about what she plans to do and why she wnats to do it. when interviewd she says
“I am always interested in learning first-hand what other people are going through, I feel that it is important for us as Canadians and people who are comfortably removed from situations like this to go there and bring home knowledge, experience and information about new ways we can become involved to help with this crisis.”  This woman has a positive attitude about he migrant crisis and is prepared to help these peopke when they need it the most.

In the second article by the gaurdian, it talks about the how people who have beeen involved in the migrant crisis have been who have immigrated to Australia have been denyed work. the article talks about the extrembness of the migrant crisis and how the UN should allow the imigrnats to work in their countires. This article mostly contains opinions and facts rather than interviews. it isnt an interactive article in the sence that it doesnt contain many interviews or opinipons of other poeple.

The frist article is a menaingful and heartfel article about how a woman who is happy to go and help the refugess who havent has the easiest of times over the last few months and she is happy to go to one of their camps to help and suppiort them when they need it the most. she tells the reporter why it is important to her to go to these sorts of places...“I just connected with her and she encouraged me to come, I thought I would get a response just asking me to send money, but I like to go to the places and see where the money is going.” This as a reader makes me feel empathetic for the people in the article as there are people out there that want to help other people who are less fortunate than them, but also they want to go to see where helps needs to be given and where the money of the pubic is going to help the migrants in their camps.

The second artcle is loooking at the migrant crisi from a differnt perspective. It shows how people who havent been that fortunate will still be willing to help other people even when they need help themselves and that they want to come to other countires not only for a better life but also to rebuild their lives and act as part of the country they have moved to by working and being like everyone else in the countrty and the people of the UN sare denying people of work even though they arwe willing to work to stay in the country so that they have a better life. “Although the Australian government could allow a detention centre worker to speak to the special rapporteur without the risk of prosecution, it has chosen not to do so in this case,” This comment suggests to me that altough they could allow this to happen very easily they are choosing not to. This may begin to be seen as racial segregation and the migrants might begin to take an offence to their decisions and begin to cause trouble in their country.

“I just think this is a really important issue that is all over the news and becoming this noise in the background and that is unacceptable to me,” this quote from the first article shows that to some people this disaster is not something that us as a country of the EU can just sweep under the capret and fogert about and that people like this need to be helped and must be delt with appropiatly rather than neglecting to keep the country updated with whats happeneing on the news.

'Guardian Australia has put questions to the immigration department asking whether it would be prepared to allow detention centre workers to speak to Crépeau, free of the restrictions of the Border Force Act. It has not yet received a response.' this extract from the article shows us that there is some conflict with the Austrailian govenment about the migrant crisis and that tey are still unsure weather to help these migrants by letting them work.

overall, these two articles are very different as they both talk abount different things. one talks about the importance of not neglecting the migrant story and the other talks about the Austrailan government refusuing to allow the migrants to work in their country. These two artices are completely different and have separate views of the crisis.

Tuesday 22 September 2015


                   ARE TEENEGAERS OBLITTERATING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

Parents are left confused by the neologisms used by their children and other people on social media sites.

Now more the ever before the English language is adapting at such a fast rate that the older generations are finding it hard to keep up with the new “lingo”.

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and other social media websites are jeopardising the future generation’s language potential. The English language has changed so drastically over the last 10 years that people in older generations may be concerned that the future generation’s language may deteriorate and change so much that the English language as we know it today may be forgotten.

Texting is manipulating today’s language.  English exam grades will begin to drop as the students are developing their texting vocabulary as shortened lexis rather than Standard English. Language such as ‘lol’ is rapidly becoming more and more common as the younger population are drilling it into the brains of the elder generations as  ‘lol’ is no longer just a texted expression but people are also beginning  to speak it.

As the use of modern technology begins to grow so does the children’s use of non-standard English. Research suggests that it is indeed the developing in modern technology which is degrading the younger generations’ use of language as they are growing up adapting their language to the sort of language that appears on social networking sites and electronic devices. Scientists as well as teachers are wary of the fact that as the technology develops and expands the younger generation’s choice of vocabulary will decrease and become less varied than it already is.

As well as shortening words by using acronyms and abbreviations some ‘textacholocis’ even prefer to use letters rather than words to illustrate what they are saying such as ‘a’ for ‘hey?’ and ‘y’ for ‘why?’ This is not only shortening the words but just using a one letter symbol to indicate what they mean just because it sounds like the word they mean. Is this really how we should be teaching the younger generation about language?

Using symbolic figures as well as letters is also being used to adapt and shorted our language ‘GR8 M8’ rather than ‘great mate’.  Also to block out the use of taboo words symbols such as ‘*!@’ are used to block out the main part of the word to hide what it actually saying, however still making it clear to the audience what it says.

 As well as shorting text people now also, (thanks to apple and android phones) emoji’s are now build in to their smart phone keyboards to illustrate visual images to also shorten the amount of text that is used. The use of emoji’s arguably won’t be as habitual as shorted texting as when you are writing on paper the use of emoji’s are not available to students however, the incorrect use of non-standard language is still going to become habitual to us.   

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Nike "just do it"
Skittles "taste the rainbows"
Burger King "have it your way"
These three adverts are demanding and have a formal assertive tone to them.

Loreal "because you're worth it"
Mc Donald's "I'm loving it"
Asda "you're better off with Asda"
KFC "it's finger licking good"
Virgin holidays "it's time to escape with Virgin"
There five adverts have abbreviated words which make them persuasive and makes them sound as though they are communicating with you.

Marmite "you love it or you hate it"
Rhinina "you can't get anymore rhibenary"
Loreal "because you're worth it"
Burger King " it will blow your mind"
Asda "you're better off with Asda"
These five adverts are addressed to the audience this attracts customers as they feel as though the advert is advertised to them and that they are involved in the product.

Coke "friendliest drink on earth"
Penguin "P-P-P-Pick up a penguin"
Volvic "waters never tasted so good"
Heinz "you know they're good because they're Heinz"
Talk talk "UK's safest broadband"
Starbucks "the best coffee for the best you"
These 6 adverts are boastful and state that their company is the best and that you should use their products.

This article is about how language in England us becoming very controversial and that there are many accents developing in and around the country. I last accessed this link on the 14th September 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/02/britain-accent-sound-foreign-snobs

This article is about how the language ad accents used in Brittan is adapting and he it has changed. it is also about how it is sometimes difficult to understand some people sometimes because of their accents.

The article states the importance in speaking all the letters in words. for example, some people tent to miss out a 'T'  in 'letter'. this can be difficult to understand if you are not from an are of the country where this is common. The article rightly states that the way we say words that are borrowed from foreign countries should be spoken correctly because they could be offended or could misunderstand what we are trying to communicate.

English itself is spoken so differently in many different English specking country's all over the world that there is sometimes language barriers and that there is common misunderstanding because of the way that language has adapted and changed over time in different places in the world. in this article the types of language in different country's is mentioned. language is an extremely important part of our lives. being able to communicate and understand one another is key in this day in age and I think this article addresses a few very important points about language and how it is differed and how important it is that it is spoken properly.

I think that the article itself have some very important points that most people wouldn't even think of but I think that because we are lucky enough to have people from all over the world not only visiting but sometimes living in our country we get to experience lots of different accents, because f this I think it is important that we as a country speak in a way that it is easy to communicate with each other so that there isn't any misunderstanding whilst communication.

Monday 7 September 2015

Groups of words:

Negative: hate, slut, inconvenience, moist, Clunge, Bellend, shag.

Positive: love, flower, home, bubbles.

Sexual: Clunge, c**t, shag, Bellend, pussy.

Misused words: literally, like, trust, sweat.

Adjectives: Amazing, lush, Naive, penguins, inconvenience, sanguine, moist, fraught.

I thought it was interesting that all the words that people didn't like are words that either don't sound very nice or have a not very nice meaning, this is what I expected.

The words that people did like are words that either sounded nice or that had a nice meaningful meaning to them.