Wild Tounge Responce

In Gloria Anzakdua’s, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, she talks about how your language is your identity, and how many immigrants create their own language variant to give themselves an identity.
Usually, and especially at a young age, immigrants (Mexican immigrants for example) will feel insecure about themselves because they feel that they are Mexican, but since they’re in America, they also feel American. Language can determine an identity, and if your native language isn’t your country’s native language, you may feel like you don’t have an identity. When people don’t think they have an identity, they make one. They do this, by making their own language that combines their cultures. The combination of languages made by immigrants, is how languages evolve, and how new languages are created. The new languages may start by combining their native language, and their new culture’s language. Then, they might start using their own slang words. Others will then hear this new language, start to speak it, and add on to it. So much of this is going on right now in America with Mexican immigration, that there will probably be a completely different language in ten years or so that Mexican immigrants have developed on their own. There is nothing wrong with this; they’re finding their own identity by creating their own language, and embracing their own, mixed culture.
Language does evolve, and an example of this can be found be comparing the English spoken in the United States today with the English spoken in the United Kingdom. Although immigrants from England to the United States spoke English, after settling here and living here for many years, the use of the English language evolved over time such that the way it is spoken, or the “accent,” is not the same, but also there are differences in the way we talk and the language we use, even to describe the same the thing. For example, what we call jeans would be referred to as dungarees in Great Britain.
After you have immigrated, and found your own identity with your language, that is when the language you speak changes. When you find your identity, that is when your language has finally changed. Finding your own language comes with finding your own identity. Having your own language is a way of communicating with people in the same immigration situation that you are.
On a narrower scale, there are times when this evolved language changes, I think, with developmental stages in a person’s life. The way I speak, and what I say is very different when I am talking to a baby, and eight year old, or a teenager. There is a huge difference and this appropriate. Although my family doesn’t believe in talking ridiculous non-grammatically correct “baby talk,” there is a simpleness to it and a very direct tone.
When I talk to an eight year old, my language is correct, but the words are a bit simpler than standard adult talk. When talking to peers, or the teenage group, the language is completely different, with words meaning different things. It is the most extreme difference in my use of the English language. I believe all of these variations are fine and appropriate to the situation. After all, language is solely for the purpose of communication and people are different with respect to age, culture, and education to name a few. Variations of language are an aspect of communication that makes it more effective.