English Language 2018 quotes and language examples

[Synchronised123]

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/wordplay-with-david-astle-tribetalk--you-are-what-you-say-20180417-h0yv3i.html

Good for how jargon can promote in-group solidarity and also for Unit 4 Outcome 2

[ellakfrancis]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/18/why-do-people-interrupt-it-depends-on-whom-youre-talking-to

A great little article on attitudes towards interruptions in conversation and how they change based on gender!

[Joseph41]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/18/why-do-people-interrupt-it-depends-on-whom-youre-talking-to

A great little article on attitudes towards interruptions in conversation and how they change based on gender!

Nice one - great contribution! And welcome to the forums.

[Joseph41]

Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness - Kate Burridge, 7 June 2018
Source: https://theconversation.com/haitch-or-aitch-how-a-humble-letter-was-held-hostage-by-historical-haughtiness-97184

But it does — the tiny H on “(h)aitch” divides the nation. The pronunciation has become something of a social password, a spoken shibboleth distinguishing in-groupers from out-groupers. Those with social clout set the standards for what’s “in” and what’s “out” — no H has the stamp of approval.

Aitchers’ reactions are often visceral. Someone once reported to us an encounter with haitch is like an encounter with fire ants.

The story of the weakly articulated H is murkily entwined with the story of its name. Long gone from Old English words like hring “ring”, hnecca “neck” and hlūd “loud”, it would have disappeared entirely if writing hadn’t thrown out a lifejacket.

And so, the English youth restored H to words like hat, and even at the start of many French words like humble, which had entered English H-less (the Romans pronounced their Hs, but the French dropped theirs). Spellers who weren’t quite sure whether or not to include H added a few extras along the way — umble pie (“offal pie”) turned into humble pie.

Many letters of the alphabet are phonetically iconic; their names represent the sound they make. In places where letter names are learned before letter sounds, such as Australia and the US, these letter names can facilitate children in learning letter sounds and, ultimately, word reading. The letter sounds that are easiest to remember are those that begin with their corresponding letter, such as B, D, J, K, P, or T.

Enjoy!

[roberth]

Jargon Examples

In EngLang Powerpoint reading for homework, use of jargon in electronics promotion interested me.
Found product page for recent phone - Huawei Mate 10 Pro https://consumer.huawei.com/au/phones/mate10-pro/

Many examples in article, but this caught my eye...
"certified by TÜV Rheinland"
Reader is left knowing that their phone's battery would be certified by some German company which sounds reputable.
The writer establishes expertise through this and successfully promotes the merits of the phone through jargonistic language.

**This is my first post on the forum so happy to take any formatting advice/feedback from moderators etc. **

[Joseph41]

From a recent podcast with Kate Burridge:
* "What's offensive changes over time. What's offensive these days is words that are considered demeaning, or belittling, or hurt other people."

Jargon Examples

In EngLang Powerpoint reading for homework, use of jargon in electronics promotion interested me.
Found product page for recent phone - Huawei Mate 10 Pro https://consumer.huawei.com/au/phones/mate10-pro/

Many examples in article, but this caught my eye...
"certified by TÜV Rheinland"
Reader is left knowing that their phone's battery would be certified by some German company which sounds reputable.
The writer establishes expertise through this and successfully promotes the merits of the phone through jargonistic language.

**This is my first post on the forum so happy to take any formatting advice/feedback from moderators etc. **

Fantastic work! And welcome to the forums.

[MAL0029]

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-multiculturalism-is-changing-the-way-we-speak

Great article on ethnolects, how Aussie colloquialisms are important to understand to assimilate and borrowings from diff languages reflecting multicultural Australian identity - early 2018

https://theconversation.com/where-are-you-from-is-a-complicated-question-this-is-how-young-australians-answer-99644
Interesting article on how language is used to create a perception/identity/ portray yourself in a certain way
-July 2018

[Joseph41]

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-multiculturalism-is-changing-the-way-we-speak

Great article on ethnolects, how Aussie colloquialisms are important to understand to assimilate and borrowings from diff languages reflecting multicultural Australian identity - early 2018

https://theconversation.com/where-are-you-from-is-a-complicated-question-this-is-how-young-australians-answer-99644
Interesting article on how language is used to create a perception/identity/ portray yourself in a certain way
-July 2018

Love your work! Welcome to ATAR Notes.

[lilhoo]

Hey guys!
What are some relevant contemporary examples that ties with Unit 4 AoS 2 you would recommend? So far I've only got the recent headlines about Scott Morrison's strange video 😂

[Joseph41]

Can You Say C*nt? - Lauren Sams, 6 September 2018
Source: https://www.elle.com.au/culture/cunt-18502

It's hard to think of a word that's more shocking than cunt. Rarely said aloud—unless it's as abuse—it's a word almost guaranteed to cause discomfort.

But cunt didn't always register as a pejorative. For most of history, in fact, cunt was a powerful, positive word used to describe female genitalia. And maybe it's time to reclaim it as such.

It's unclear exactly where the word came from, but all of the possible origins were either benign (the Latin "cunnus", meaning vulva or "cuneus", meaning wedge) or body positive (in ancient Egypt, "kunt" referred to respected women in the community). In fact, cunt only took a turn for the rude relatively recently, in Victorian times, when women's sexuality was seen as something to be hidden and not celebrated.

The word appeared in a dictionary of coarse language in 1785—defined as "a nasty word for a nasty thing"—and then didn't resurface in mainstream culture until the '70s, when feminists campaigned to make the word taboo.

"There's a vast difference in the wounding capacity of… male and female sex organs," says Monash University linguistics professor Kate Burridge. "Prick means 'stupid, contemptible', whereas cunt means 'nasty, malicious, despicable.'"

Some great quotes here.

[Bri MT]

The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages

https://theconversation.com/the-english-only-nt-parliament-is-undermining-healthy-democracy-by-excluding-aboriginal-languages-105048

"Rejecting someone’s language means rejecting their identity"

[MSetty1]

TYVM made my life easier

[AngelWings]

Adding to this list for the 2019ers and beyond because I found some sweet, sweet articles:
- Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages - Language diversity in rural areas. (published December 5 2018)
- ‘Bringing home the bacon’ offensive to vegans - Are vegans going too PC? (published December 6 2018)
- I am a wife, so stop correcting me to say 'partner' - LGBTIQA+, marriage equality and PC culture. (published December 13 2018) 

[Bri MT]

- ‘Bringing home the bacon’ offensive to vegans - Are vegans going too PC? (published December 6 2018)

Just adding on, in vegan facebook groups people have been meme-ing on this and rejecting it as "not representative of the community", but a specific example of where I have seen language use differences within vegan communities is quotes like 'when you're so vegan you address your partner as "syrup" instead of "honey". '

So yeah, some backlash to PETA's prescriptivist approach despite some members of the community individually deciding to change their language use and identifying that as a marker of identity.

[AngelWings]

This one just arrived this morning by two lecturers at Monash (including the one and only Kate Burridge): It's time to stop cringing at the Aussie accent and start loving it.

EDIT (about 2 weeks later): The origins of "bogan" potentially involve Xavier College *cue "the more you know" meme*