Good morning cyberspace.
As a new assignment, today our class is supposed to write about "the language" that surrounds our lives, and the people that we talk to the most.
After briefly musing over this idea I have realized that the majority of my influences as of language are from areas that are heavily contributed to by the media. Even as I type this blog I am listening to horribly amazing dance music from the 80s' and 90s', additionally, last night I had spent time watching TV, and this is no new routine for me. I'm also thinking about how much "Artistic license" we take when creating these media and society driven entities and even in our own daily speech. In music you can clearly hear the grammatical errors all the time, there are forced rhymes, words left out, and even blatantly ignored simple rules on how the sentence should be formed purely for the purpose that the artist thinks it sounds better that way.
I'm not ignoring the fact that I do this either. Even when I'm writing to you cyberspace, I'm consciously thinking about what word sounds better here, what can make this phrase read better, what little changes can I make to hold your attention while I still get the point of what I am thinking about across. Take my previous sentence for example. The sentence clearly is a run on, but due to the fact that I like how it reads, I'm not going to change it. I clearly rely on rhythm much more heavily than actually caring about whether or not the grammar in my sentences is correct.
So cyberspace, what is it that influences your speech? I may write more about this at some point later, but now I'm going to go practice my grammar on freerice.com some more.
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I like the voice and personality to your writing. I like very much your analysis of music and how it manipulates language to serve rhythm. You also point out accurately that for the sake of style and pacing, we may or may not observe grammar rules. Well done.
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