American Tongues

1. Right off the bat, i can see that i agree with the way they do one thing. I like that they go many different places to look at the dialect of the people all over the United States. If i were to redo this today, i would revisit the places they went, but i would go to different places, for instances, they went to the farm in texas, so maybe i would go a business man instead. I would also try to get some new "insider terms".

2. I think that the flaws of the study are they only seemed to interview certain types of people. It seemed to me that they only interviewed the "farm boys" or the country folk of the different places. Only a few times were there professionals interviewed. While i think it is important for the "everyday" people to be interviewed, i also think it is important to have a variety of people in the study. This would show us the different people in the same area, along with different people in different areas. I think if i were to do this again i would make sure i got a well rounded amount of people from each area.

3. i think language is very important in the way we perceive others. This video shows us that people in different areas think highly of themselves and less of those who speak differently. We are all americans, just because our accent is different doesn't mean that we are bad people, or less educated, etc. The people in the video says that when we talk, our education is revealed, and our values, and our beliefs. Basically everything is revealed about us just by the way we talk. It is obvious that there are people that only look at the outside, and the way we speak to judge who we are as people.