Milk or Melk?

It was funny, a couple days ago one of my teammates told me to pass the "melk" pronounced just like that! I kinda chuckled and began to correct her saying, "Its milk". It made me laugh because that sounds so foreign to me. Well, she is from California. It is soda over there, definitely not pop. She laughs every time I say pop. It cracks me up! I think it is crazy that how in other parts of the states, they can pick up new so-called lingo that we find strange. I am certain that they think that what we say is also weird. Just like "pop". Our pronunciations and words that we use are constantly changing. It is definitely assumed that we speak and have accents to others even if we think we do not. Just like the myth book, it is so true that we think "everyone has an accent but me". I find that fascinating when talking to friends and they say a word that sounds foreign to us and we instantly call them out on it because it sounds so strange but to them it sounds completely normal. I think the southern accent is also really funny. We find it funny and amusing but the southerners can definitely tell we are from "MinnesOta"! Overall, there are many words that differ in the English language that we come across and others pronounce differently. I notice it more and more since I read that myth in our book!

Class or School

It is funny how, when I was younger, would think my college siblings would say "class" and I would say "school". It makes me laugh because now I cannot picture saying "I got school in about twenty minutes". I think when one gets to college it really does change. In the college life, rarely do you ever here anyone say school, but class. I think it makes the most sense because it really does fit the college stereotype. It makes me think how the times have really changed. Even when I was reminiscing in my tenth grade classes about going to "school" back then, not class. The times have sure changed.

Go Cougars!

In Utah, the mascot "cougar" was deemed too risque for a high school mascot due to double meaning that it has in today's culture. I find this extremely unnecessary for them to act like this. I have heard of cougars being mascots at not only high schools but colleges as well! I am extremely shocked in this sense. We live in a society where swearing is the norm on television and sexual acts are performed even on television shows. It boggles my mind. This is a prime example of  just how much our language has changed and gets twisted. Words having double meanings, acting risque. Almost anything today can get twisted into something sexual or make a joke, but when do you draw the line? This is a high school mascot we are talking about. It honestly is crazy.

It is "I" not "Me"

I came across something in our book today that made me think back to the 1st grade. My teacher really was a stickler about this and as I read what our book entails, I feel she may be wrong. "My sister and I went to the store" she would always say. "My sister and me" was absolutely wrong. Many of my friends even growing up were taught this. It is really something that these teachers may be wrong. We were taught this because we are supposed to use I, the nominative case form of the first person pronoun, rather than the accusative form, me. According to Emonds (1986), this logic is not really logical. Does this make sense: We went to the store/Jane and we went to the store/Jane and us went to the store?  When we were told that My sister and I, it really does not have enough logic behind it to use it. This cannot be generalized to pronouns other than I. Pronouns show case in English, and prescriptive rules of them depend on the "correct" case in English. These rules are often inconsistent. So the next time we say My sister and me went to the store, it really is not logical to say that it is wrong.