In his essay Why I Write the author, George Orwell, opens up about his conscious nature of being a writer and not only talks about his evolution as a writer, but also tells readers the reasons why a writer writes.  Orwell talks about how he started writing at a young age and as he got older, he played around with different literary activities.  For example, at age five he was writing poems, at age fourteen he wrote a play and as he got a little older, he started to make up a “story” about himself in his mind, almost as if he were self-narrating.  He then goes on to explain some of the motives of why a writer writes.  Orwell lists four reasons; Sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political impulse.  He addresses that he does partake in each of these motives; however, he cannot determine which one of these is the strongest motive.  He states that even though all writers have different motives, what they do have in common is that even under their own motives, there still “lies a mystery” and writing itself can be difficult process.

3 ways to speak English by Jamilia Lyiscott reports why a lady called her “articulate”. Lyiscott offers this example ” So I may not always come before you with excellency of speech but do not judge me by my language and assume that I’m too ignorant to teach ’cause I speak three tongues One for each: home, school and friends”. Lyiscott says that when she speaks “broken” English that doesn’t make her too ignorant to teach but instead it shows that she can speak three tongues; One for home, school and friends. Even when she is being questioned by talking in “broken English” she responds that she can actually speak “broken English” with friends or she can speak proper English in school and also talk in Jamaican-English with others. Lyiscott is saying that she can speak in these tongues, this just shows you how “articulate” she can be in different kinds of situations. It is not just her capabilities of speaking three tongues that makes her “articulate”

Jamila Lyiscott,a poet expresses her opinion on the freedom of  using different dialects or languages,she speaks of how speaking three different languages gives her advantages to connect liberally with various ethnic groups.

Jamila’s view expressed here, is that languages or dialects are cultural and adaptative.She supports this view by speaking unapologetically about her choice of dialects.

She spoke of three dialects she uses,which are,the english language, broken english, and a native dialect. Jamila repeatedly stated that she is articulate in her speech no matter which dialect she

speaks. speaking three different dialects or languages for her,seem to  have given her an advantage to communicate with different individuals and in different social settings.

In this video Jamila Lyiscott explains how she speaks English in three ways she considers as a linguistic celebration. For example, she states that she is “tri-lingual” because she speaks three tongues at home, at school, and with friends. She explains how she has to treat all three languages as equals. This makes her articulate in a way that she can express and communicate with anyone because she can speak intellectually, hood, and professional. This shows how it is a linguistic celebration for her because she is able to apply what she knows throughout her everyday life in an effective way. Despite having to speak three ways in English because of the world we live in now, this doesn’t make her forget that her language was raped away along with her history.

In Jamila Lyiscott’s spoken word piece, “3 Ways to speak English,” she gives way to the idea that there is no one proper version of the English language. Lyiscott (2014) asserts that “the English language is a multifaceted oration” (1:22). She also exclaims that she is an articulate individual, being fluent in three languages, two of them being forms of the English language. Lyiscott discusses the importance of place in terms of the use of each language, from home, to street, to school. She specifies which is significant to each setting to highlight the importance of the English language having no primary use over another. She highlights the idea that she is able to be articulate in the European style English, while also being able to speak two versions of broken English. Although the use of each language is subject to a specific location, Lyiscott emphasizes how the invasion of her homeland impacted this ability.

In Jamila Lyiscott’s essay, Broken English, she states that even though she is being described as an articulate person, a person who has no problem pronouncing things, she still speaks in three different ways. For instance, Lyiscott tells us that she speaks in a certain way with friends, another way with family and finally for the world, like in a classroom. When talking to your friend, it can be different versus on how you will talk to your family or in a classroom with people you might not know. For example, She demonstrates that she is articulate by responding to her friend “I just say, “I jus’ fall out wit dem people but I done!”, but in the classroom setting she says, “sometimes in class I might pause the intellectual sounding flow to ask, Yo! Why dese books neva be about my peoples.” Since Lyiscott lists that “I’m a tri-lingual orator”, she shows that she can speak in more than one language. In addition, when Lyiscott was speaking to the audience, she uses creative poetry, to communicate with them. There are not just three different languages that she can speak and how others can understand but rather how people can communicate with each other through different ways.