Swe vs. Sbe

            Language is in fact very much an influence to one’s personal characteristics; it can shape the way you’re seen and, depending on how much control you have over it, one can even shape language to show different parts of our personal selves to the public. Different languages can tell others many things about you and even just the way you speak a specific language can tell so much more about someone than they may bargain for. One’s private self is that part of someone that’s very nonchalant about the things around them; it has a very comforting feeling to it. A private self is that person you are at home, around the ones that have no choice on whether to love you or not. A public self is the complete opposite, it only shows as much as someone wants to show, we all shape ourselves in the public for others to see us the way we want them to see us. Language is one of the main changes from a public to a private self, whether it’s just a dialect or even a completely foreign language, but one has to pick and choose which is appropriate at what time and how it should be used.
            Speaking two different languages can make someone have two different personalities. In this country these two languages can sometimes be very useful other times it can make some things complicated. In the essay “Authority and American Usage” by David Foster Wallace, a college professor, speaks of Standard Written English. How some may see it as the USA trying to bring their language down it’s really just the language one has no other choice but to learn and speak if looking to be heard by the higher public. He talks about a speech he made to some of his students, in this speech about SWE he states that “SWE is the language our country uses to talk to itself” (Wallace 30) SWE is the public voice; it is the voice one must speak in to be heard by and minimize the criticism by those around us. As much one may not want to learn SWE because it is not one’s own language it is one of...