3 ways to speak english

     I find this speech by Jamila Lyiscott, "3 ways to speak English" pretty interesting in many ways. She explains her speech in an odd but interesting way. She starts to rap her speech. I see this as a form to grab the audience's attention. She talks about how she has a "tri-lingual identity", in other words she speaks 3 different forms of English. For example, she states that she speaks differently when shes at school, with friends, and at home. 

    When she's at school she speaks the traditional way of speaking english. For example, "Hello". However, this differs from when she's at school and at home. When she's at home she speaks Caribbean influenced broken english, for example, "Wha kinda ting is dis". Lastly, she speaks like this when she's at school, " What's good with you son?". These all go to show the different types of ways that one can speak English. She says that she's being articulate. not only that, but I think that the main reason why she chose this speak was to go against linguistic diversity being policed, it should be celebrated.

    

    In conclusion, I find her speech very interesting and as soon as the video played it completely grabbed my attention, it is always interesting seeing a speaker do a whole rap on their speech. Even though she only speaks one language, she considers herself a speaker of three tongues. This is because of the three different ways to speak English. All of the different diversities. 

A Call to Men

    I find the speech by Tony Porter, "A Call to Men" very interesting and relatable. In his speech he explains how men are raised to not show much emotion from a young age. His topic is about something that not many fathers have the need to talk about. Most fathers teach their sons to not cry. This is because it was normalized in our society and now every time a man cries it's seemed as weird or strange. In our society the only people that should cry are the women and the men shouldn't cry. He goes on explaining his personal stories that he's had. He goes to give some comparisons to how we're hostage to something called the man box. The man box is basically what society expects men to be. For example, men shouldn't cry. 

    Tony Porter uses a lot of techniques in his speech. One of them is one that I have stated before, it is personal stories. You might not even think about this as a technique but what this actually does is it builds trust with the audience because not many people like to share their personal stories of when they were young. Another one of his techniques is something that he calls the "man box". Personally I like this metaphor because it's a set of beliefs that men have to basically follow. These beliefs define what a "real man" is supposed to be. Another technique that I have noticed in his speech is that Tony uses inclusive language. This means that he uses words such as, "we" and "us". What this means is that, he includes the audience as part of the story. Instead of deciding to blame the men in the audience he basically ads them as part of the solution. What this does is it basically feel the men in the audience as part of the solution or movement and not actually part of the problem. 

    In conclusion, the goal of Tony's speech is to change what we as a society think of manhood. Specifically one that embraces all sorts of feelings such as empathy and vulnerability. He uses all of these different techniques get his message across. He uses examples that not only captures his audience's attention but also invites them to be a part of the solution and not the problem. Through personal stories and inclusive language he manages to get his point across and greatly influences his audience into becoming better people and invites men to be a part of the solution.

Welcome to my Blog

 Welcome to my Blog about Tony Porter's TedTalk "Call to Men" and Jamila Lyiscott "3 ways to speak English". I will be talking about his speech and how it really affects men. He talks about something that is pretty rare to see nowadays and not many men especially fathers talk about it. I'm excited to see what you all think. The type of tone that I will be using is an informative tone, because I will be explaining and disclosing information about men and how they're taught to hide their emotions. For Jamila's speech I will be talking about how she addresses her audience and how she expresses herself because of how articulate she is.