Ethos Pathos Logos

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Sat Sri Akal! Hello. Namaste! Hi. Salaam! Five of the same phrases in four different languages - Punjabi, English, Hindi, and Arabic. The first languages I learnt to speak, almost the first words I said in each language. Do I still know all of them? Have I lost some of them? Are there more I’ve learned and acquired? Born in Dubai, raised in Dubai for seven years, the rest in the United States. I lived in a one bedroom apartment with a total of nine Hindi/Punjabi speaking people. I was surrounded by apartments with English, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Tamil, Spanish, and Gujarati speakers. In all, within a well diverse language community.
Living in Dubai, traveling between Sharjah, I started school precocious than many children in the United States. …show more content…

I lived in Richmond Hill of New York, attending P.S. 62 Chester Park School. I was supposed to enter second grade, but because of age restrictions, I was registered into first grade. Those were the months where I lost the Arabic touch I carried from Dubai/Sharjah, because I had no way of communicating and holding on to it. Not only that, my parents and I realized the different English taught over in the US than in the Dubai/Sharjah. Today, the teaching styles may have changed, but in 2006, the English felt really different. It was really informal and there was a lack of instruction on the organizations of …show more content…

If I’m talking to my friends, family, a stranger, or an animal, I won’t be talking in a formal, sophisticated, high-class manner. I’ll use phrases such as, “Hi, what’s up? What’ve you been up to these days? Everything good? See ya! Missed you!” It’s used when there has been a comfort level developed between the someone or the people. On the other hand, if I’m at a job interview, talking to an admission officer, professor, teacher, guidance counselor, I’ll speak more carefully. I’ll greet in a polite, tranquil, mannerly. “Hello, Professor X. Nice to meet you.” Formal is to be used in a professional setting. Thus, I personally feel in writing, formal language should overpower informal language. It still depends on the kind of writing: memoir, autobiography, narrative, persuasive, fictional book, romance, and etc, when the manner of writing is being chosen.
At Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, I’ve both a formal and informal relationship with my peers and teachers. There are some teachers I think I speak to in an informal way and it’s something nice. I don’t think I’m offending them, I just feel that it means we’re really comfortable sharing and talking to each other. The same applies to my peers. To some of them, I’ll speak differently because if I speak informally it seems that I’m being disrespectful. It’s something that I just happen to feel, even if the opposite person doesn’t feel

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