speak up suckaz
For students, it’s the end of the semester, a time when many will admit to viewing their entire job as slopping page after page of B.S. into variously formatted documents all in an effort to trick that professor into thinking you’re worth an A. For those lucky enough to be swimming in “the real world,” spring is the time of clean up, planting, plays, graduation, project finishing, project beginning, reconciliation, and outdoor recreation. In any case, in all this manic bashing our heads into bricks, trying to “Get stuff done,” I hope we all think about the quality of what we produce.
Slam poet Taylor Mali says it a little better than I do. Enjoy.
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“It’s not enough to simply question authority, you’ve got to speak with it too.”
Mali’s last comment brings me back to Dr. Taylor’s linguistics class, when he repeatedly said something along the lines of, “This [Edited American English] is the language of power.”
Mali doesn’t go so far as to say every person or instance using a rising concluding tone is a sign of low confidence (though I would agree with the guess that it is the tone’s most common cause), but if he would have, I would contest. I’ve known a few (confident) people that seemed to just do it for no apparent reason. But then again, maybe their feelings of uneasiness were just that – unapparent.
In any case, thanks for the stimulating video.
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