The Articulate Compromise
While there are many languages out there, there are people who don't think they know more
than one, but based on what I've read and what I've heard, many people use more than one language
everyday. Is the way you would speak to a co-worker or boss the same way you would speak to or
interact with your friends? No, are you going to interact and speak as free tongued around your
parents that you do when you hang out with your friends? No, but you wont speak to your parents
with the same formality that you do with your boss or co-workers either. You speak to your boss,
friends, and family all in different languages. This is a perspective held by Lyiscott, to her being
articulate means being able to fluently speak in any way that's different from another, and
that in itself is it's own language. Anzuldua said, "So, if you want to really hurt me, talk poorly about
my language." This expresses her love for her first language (Spanish). When she moved to
a country where so many of the people don't understand her language she had to learn a new one, in
the story she also says that when one lives in a country where the dominant language is one they
cannot speak what else is one to do but to create a new one, one that takes a little of each in a sort of
compromise making a whole new culture.
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