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Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Sarah Trenholm argues, “The concept of ‘Linguistic relativity,’ theorizes that people from different language communities perceive the world differently…If you have ever studied a foreign language, you may know that some concepts and ideas that are easily expressed in one language are difficult to translate into another…we are told that Arabic has many words for horses and that the Eskimos have many ways to talk about snow…French speakers have two ways to say ‘you’: a polite and a familiar form” (Trenolm 2008, p. 75).
I love the different language communities represented in the work place. I especially love the French and Arabic languages. I have studied both languages and have found Trenholm’s argument precisely true. First of all, both languages have a polite (Formal) and a familiar (Informal) version of words. It depends upon who you are speaking to which will determine the version used. For example, if you are speaking to a friend you would address him or her using the familiar version of the word within a phrase. However, if you are speaking to a stranger, you would use the polite version.
Nice posting yes I remember the same situation when learning Spanish in high school I remember the whole class had problems with understanding that. I think its better when a language has differences like that it shows a lot more respect from people and it is easier to be respectful to your elders peers or any other situation you might be in.
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Linguistics is a huge field that is still expanding through language and other categories like technology that we are forming in our present day. In the western world we are getting into how cell phones have their own language and how we are connecting it all to out language and culture. Arabic is a old amazing language that has been around for thousands of years. The language compared to french and english is quite different but relating the words to other languages will take time and be a little complex. Languages develop their own since of meaning that will often find differences when being interpreted but making adjustments to slight meanings is how the languages find a common ground. One good example is watching movies with subtitles and trying to see if the words match up. This of course is only effective it you are bilingual which some of up are and most of us in California know or are learning spanish so this is a good tool for a language exercise.
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