As I sit here finishing up homework, I realized that too many of the books we read do not do a good job of communicating to us. Lofty speech and sentences does not impress me. Lofty speech and sentences tend to anger me and I tend to walk away with no interest. Which brings me to my question, should reading be a language of its own?
Ive been told that I sometimes write the way I talk. Which is why I try to correct whatever I write. To some degree, I do not see that as an issue. If my audience in which I am writing to understands my dialect should I not write that way? I mean we can go to the extremes of broken English and Ebonics. Though I am a black man from the hood, I am not an advocate for that. Speech should be clear to everyone. But some "scholars" write material that do not communicate ideas well because the presentation of their ideas are way too technical. We as Americans do not talk as technical as a written grammar demands. For example, we talk in contractions.
I question the idea of an intelligence that does not allow successful transfer of information. I question the idea of an intelligence that enables one to flaunt his years of study in order to intimidate those who have less of an encounter of the subject matter. If you are a teacher or a writer, do me and the millions of college students who do not understand what you are saying a favor, TALK AND WRITE CLEAR ENGLISH!!!!
