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reason that she spoke a simple, non-native variation of English, derogatorily referred to as "broken" or
"fragmented" English. Indeed, this is the power of language: without standard language skills, one is
identified as an outsider, often inaccurately perceived and unfairly discriminated against.
Yet identification with and acceptance in a community is not the only result of language acquisition.
Baldwin and Tan both describe an unbreakable link between language and self-individuation. In other
words, your experience with language shapes your sense of self-identity. Tan writes of the different
Englishes she uses. Chiefly, she distinguishes between the simple form of English she speaks with her
family and more complex version of the language she uses in her professional life. Though there was a
time when Tan was embarrassed by her mother's English, she now sees things from a different
perspective. She writes, "my mother's English is perfectly clear . . . It's my mother tongue. Her language,
as I hear it is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the
way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world" (27). The language that she once
perceived as inferior, sub-standard, or broken, she now views as intimate, special, and representative of
her mother's beautiful and insightful expression of herself and view of the world, which Mrs. Tan, in turn,
taught her daughter. Her point is well taken.
Even if we are not multilingual, do we not all have a different mother tongue taught to us as children
which has unconsciously shaped the way we see ourselves and our world? And do we not all speak our
own different Englishes, calling upon them as the occasion and audience direct? Certainly, the language I
call upon in a meeting with the president of the university differs from the language that I use with my
colleagues, which is different from the language I speak with my friends or family, which differs from the
language I use with my godchildren. It may be a matter of word choice or intonation or slang or content or
purpose, but each is a different part of myself and my world.
Language is many things: the arrangement of words in a particular order, uttered in a certain way,
denoting certain meaning, a political instrument which evokes images and emotion. Certainly, all of this is
a description of the purpose and function of language. But at its most fundamental, language is quite
simply the expression of self and the ability to share that expression with others. Baldwin and Tan both
highlight the importance of language: to be without language is to be voiceless, and to be voiceless is to
silence the song of the self.
Howlanguageisveryimportant,centraleven,towhoweareasindividuals.
b. Howlanguageisntveryimportanttowhoapersonis
c. Howknowingalanguageislikeknowingaculture
d. Hownotknowingalanguagekeepspeoplefromknowingaculture
e. Whathappenstofamilieswhentheydonotsharethesamelanguage
f. Therelationshipbetweenlanguageandculture
g. ThesocialpressuretolearnEnglish
h. TheconnectionbetweenlearningEnglishandassimilatingintoAmericanculture
i. ThevalueofresistingAmericancultureandtotalassimilation
j. ThepossibilitiesoflivingintwoworldsthedominantAmerican/English/middleclassworldanda
home
worldwhichmaybeverydifferent.
k. Yourownideas
To me, as well as many others, language is more than just words and proper punctuation. It is all
that and the ability to communicate. It allows people to accurately express their thoughts, feelings,
and ideas. Language is also used to relay to society, as well as individuals, information about facts
and events. Language is used everyday. It is used when people talk to friends or family, listen to the
radio, watch television, read the paper or use the telephone. Events of the past, present and future
are learned of through language. Tragedies are reported (and sometimes prevented) through
communication. Language helps to shape society as a whole and the individuals in it. Language
gives society and the individuals that make it up the power to grow, change, and overcome.
Some of the effects language has o society are profound. Most of this occurs through the
communication of present and futur
Plug a pendrive into a public computer and you will be pesked by the continuously replicating New Folder.exe virus
or the regsvr.exe virus. Hear my story, while I transferred my notes last night (around 600
folders) and I was surprised to see that around 450 MB of space was eaten by these self
replicating space eaters ! I was running Linux so these were not a concern for me, but when I
plugged my pendrive into my virtual machine (windows xp sp3), it caused multiple problems
of explorer corruption and disabling registry tools.
Time for some virus busting I guess..here is how you can remove regsvr.exe and new
folder.exe from your computer.
Step 1 - Some Startup Repairs
First of all, boot into safe mode.After you get to your desktop,press F3 or Ctrl + F and search for autorun.inf file in
your computer and delete all the subsequent files. I case you are no able to delete them, select all the files and
uncheck theRead Only option. If you are still not able to delete them , you might want to try out Unlocker tool to
delete the files.
Now go to
start > run > type msconfig
and press enter
Go to startup tab and uncheck regsvr, click ok and then click on Exit without restart.
Now go to
control panel > scheduled tasks and delete At1 task listed there.
Once done, close all windows.
Step 2 - Changing Configurations
Your registry might be disabled,and you need to activate it back to undo all the malicious changes done by worm.In
order to do that, you need to go to
start > run > type gpedit.msc
and press enter
then navigate to
users configuration > Administrative templates > systems
Find prevent access to registry editing tools , double click it and change the option to disable.
Once done, your Regedit will be enabled. In case your task manager is disabled, you need to enable it.
Step 3 - Registry Edits
Now we have to perform some registry edits to enable our explorer and to remove all instances of worm from the
registry. Go to
start > run > type regedit
and press enter
Click on Edit > Find and search for regsvr.exe . Find and delete all the occurrences of regsvr.exe virus (don't
delete regsvr32.exe as its not a virus).
then navigate to entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and modify the entry
Shell = Explorer.exe regsvr.exe