Teaching Related Notes From Old Notebooks- UNSORTED AND HALF THOUGHT

A few assumptions many people make
1. The way I was taught to use language is the correct way to use language.
2. Language, like math, has unchanging rules
3. Similar language is a sign of similar thinking.
4. All ideas can be expressed.
5. All ideas can be expressed in easy to read form.

Not a single one of them is true.


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Why you need to be a good reader
1. Text is easily available.  Discussion is not.  What you get through discussion here, you will have to get on your own later.
2. Print ads can be tricky.  Read the fine print.
3. Emails.  You will get a million of them.
4. Reading instructions.  Example: tax forms.  Pay someone or read something




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Maybe This Will Help
1. Speaking vs Writing, a history.    earliest examples.   broca's area.   earliest writing.
2. If the history of Existence was 24 hours, writing showed up at 11:28 pm   (maybe it was language that showed up)-  John McWhorter quote
3. Standard English is a dialect with a PR department   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_English
4.Language trends are a thing.   Let's study slang for a minute.
5. Do we read every word on the page?   https://www.quora.com/Do-voracious-readers-usually-read-every-word-of-a-book
6. How do we learn about language?  1. Naturally  2. ON purpose   3. Bits and pieces by accident
7. Chomsky-  Language acquisition device
8. Why is English spelling so f-ed up?   Compare the French academy, the shift from British to English, and the phonetics.
9. Pronouns say more than we think.   (The Secret Life of Pronouns).   When depressed, people use I 5 percent of the time.   When not depressed, people use it 7 percent.
10. Broca's area
11. Loaded question
12. Loaded descriptions
13. Does language use show intelligence?  If so, ALL WOMEN ARE SMARTER.
14. Does paper spelling show intelligence?  THEN COMPUTERS ARE SMARTER
15. Why people create new words
16. Why companies create new words
17. THe map is not the territory
18. Miscue analysis
19. Con artists