Twelve Words
What this is about is Brian is trying to get his brother Danny to say his name. Brian becomes frustrated with Danny because he can’t say his name or any of his other sibling’s name, but Brian got his brother to say at least one word that only Brian knew I-an. Danny said the word I-an to tease Brian as well. I like the part where Brian wanted Danny to say his name because he was persistent on getting Danny to say his name. Why was Brian so persistent on Danny saying his name even though Danny could not speak? What I found compelling is also when Danny said I-an before he goes to sleep that means I love you in his language. The idea I have for this story is share a little more about the childhood the two had because he only wrote half of a page worth for the childhood. I like how through all this Brian was by his brothers side no matter what the cost was. What made me sad is that Danny died way to early to enjoy life to the fullest and die old.
No one could see the color blue until modern times
What this is about is that talking about blue and not seeing it before today. What I find interesting about this article is that do not see blue because I always thought people saw blue. An idea I have for this article is that they should have shown a video of people reacting to seeing blue for the first time. What surprised me about this is that Egyptians were the ones to discover the word blue. I like when they did the green square experiment to see if people saw blue. Why did they do this experiment to see blue? What I find weird is that we did not see blue at all before modern times.
How Language Shapes our Perception of Reality
What this article is about is that how language shapes our thoughts and our actions. What I find weird is that they compare the brain to the conception of reality. Why are they saying the brain has a second language in reality? An idea I have for this article is that they should add more information to the section “The Brain with a second language”. Another idea I have is they should add a little bit more information to the whole article itself because it fells kind of short and I am interested in this article. What I like about this article is that they talk about the brain having a second language. What I also like is that how they compare English speakers to languages.
The Concept of Discourse Community
What this pdf is about it compares how one person’s idea can be similar to another person’s idea. An idea I have for this article is that give an example of a Discourse community. What I like about this article it goes in depth on what you need to do to talk about discourse community. What I also like is that they talk about how they use it in an example. What I do not like about this article is that they put to much information in this article. An idea for this article just summarizes what discourse community is about. What is compelling to me is that they talk about how someone can think about a similar thing another person wants to write about.
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