Sunday, 19 October 2014

Written Task #1

Rationale Ever since technology has begun integrating itself into our everyday life we have been able to see and track a change in the English language and the way we use it. One technology in particular has had a significant impact on the language we use every day: texting. The first text message was sent in December 1982 and it simply read "Merry Christmas". Throughout the 1990's texting became more open to the public but still was nowhere...

Saturday, 11 October 2014

"Textspeak"

Technology is ruining this generation. At least, that's what any of your stereotypical older people would say. But let's be honest in about 10 more years those same people are going to be relying on the technology of our generation to keep them alive. Yet for some reason they continue to prattle on and on about one thing in particular: texting. If someone heard my grandfather talk about texting and cell phones they would think that he was describing...

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Letter to the Editor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-joshi/why-a-bindi-is-not-an-exa_b_5150693.html A breath of fresh air Tyler Williams 5 October 2014 I must admit that before reading your article I had an opposite view on the matter of the cultural appropriation of the bindi. While I still agree that there are many examples of cultural appropriation in society today I realize now that a bindi may not fall under this category. The point you made...