Blog Post #4

1. How do you think the rise of social networking affects language use? (Give some examples). The rise of social networking affects language use because everyone always keeps up with the new technology or famous people. Mostly with new technology because its a way of interacting with people or communication. The communication with people within technology is different from how people normally speak only because when people are iming or sending emails its like their in a hurry so they start to abbreviate or try to make words smaller. For example laughing out loud people write lol. Or btw means by the way. Its going to keep growing and people will get so customed to it when they have to write its going to be incorrect. Technology will take over. 
2. Does the spread of the Internet and other technologies create a larger need for English knowledge around the world, or reduce its necessity? I think they should reduce the use of internet and other technologies just a little only because like I said I believe technology will take over. People will become lazy and start typing everything so when they have to finally hand print a paper its going to be very sloppy since they became so used to typing with a computer or their cellphones. 

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Hello my name is Gabriela and I am colombian and guatemalan. I was born here in the United States but my first language was spanish. I was raised in a spanish environment, especially because of my family and where we normally hung out. Everyone normally spoke spanish to one another so I always spoke spanish, it was like an instinct. I know how to read and write spanish the same way when I read and write in english. At work I normally speak english, but when I see a spanish person in trouble speaking I will end up speaking  in spanish to them only because I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable. I know how that feels sometimes because when I was younger I didn't really understand english, i was fluent in spanish so when my teachers spoke to me I felt like I was in a different planet. With my friends I speak both english and spanish to them, they know that sometimes till this day I forget words and will end up saying it english. 
I think language happens by surroundings and instinct. Its something that anyone can pick up or feel. Like if you hurt yourself and all of a sudden you say ow but you didnt know what that word meant. Learning a new language is like learning the first language. You hear it, say it and learn it. When someone is dedicated to learning a new language they will end up learning it. What I wonder about language is how it all originate or how that language ended up with an accent. 

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