Malekie Green Reflective Essay #3

Malekie/ November 28, 2018/ Reflective Essay #3, Uncategorized/ 3 comments

Jamaican Patois is a dialect of English mostly spoken by people in the Caribbean country of Jamaica. Most if not all if Jamaica’s citizens all speak this dialect primarily and will even continue speaking it should they choose to move to a new country. Patois is commonly referred to as “broken English” by both Jamaicans and people seeking to learn

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Malekie Green Reflective Essay #2 Draft 1

Malekie/ October 24, 2018/ Reflective Essay #2/ 3 comments

        In my prominently English neighborhood there’s a single Chinese food restaurant called “Kim Po”. The store is located at Farmers Boulevard in Saint Albans Queens, not too far from where I live. My reason for choosing this sign (besides the fact that it happens to be one of the only signs near my house that’s in

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Linguistic Landscape, Malekie

Malekie/ October 16, 2018/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

This is the banner of my local Chinese food store at Farmers Boulevard in Saint Albans Queens. The the sign is mostly in English, the name of the store is Chinese (though the words uses the Latin alphabet rather than Chinese characters). The sign is simple with it’s purpose, letting anyone who passes by know the name of their restaurant

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(Malekie) Reflective Essay Draft #1

Malekie/ September 30, 2018/ Reflective Essay #1/ 3 comments

It’s reasonable to believe that the best way to understand your method of speech is to ask those who normal speak to you, correct? So with that in my I spoke to two of my close friends and asked them to help me understand my dialect. This is how I learned that my way of talking heavily depends on my

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Writing is more perfect than speech. Is it though?

Malekie/ September 26, 2018/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Inherently, there is no such thing as “perfection”. What works for one person isn’t guaranteed to work for another; and the notion of ones preferred method of communication being regarded as superior to another is just sheer arrogance. Both methods of communication, Speech and Writing, come with their own advantages and disadvantages. On one hand, speech allows for a quick

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