Summary
Jamila Lyiscott the speaker of the “3 ways to speak English” explains how she speaks English with her friends, parents, and classmates should be known as articulate. For example when Lyiscott says “I’m articulate but who controls articulation? Because the English language is a multifaceted oration subject to indefinite transformation.” She is letting us know that English is already a made up language as all languages are. when she says her languages are equal she is showing us that as long as she is understood it doesn’t matter of which 3 of her languages she speaks she is still articulate. Lyiscott proves this because as she just said “english is a subject to indefinite transformation” she shows the English language is always changing and she is just speaking in a different form of English that has been modified with its own set of rules not a wrong form of English.
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You’ve got such a strong main idea sentence and because of this, you’ve got a lot of room to analyze your examples. What I wanted to know more about is the idea of English being transformative. You mention English as being made up, but I’m not sure that is what Jamila means when she talks of the constant changing of English. It might be Jamila’s way of referencing English as a reflection of diversity. The more diversity we see, the more language changes.