Blog Assignment
A look at language...
In each discipline, and really in any human endeavor that involves a closed group, the members develop an internal language that has specific meaning for them and little or no meaning for those outside the group. Even words that are in normal usage take on a new meaning in the in group.
What are three of your favorite words from the 'secret language' of your discipline, and why are you drawn to them?
Conversely, people outside of the group, not knowing the intricacies of the discipline, tend to reduce the function of the group using an unfair condensation of one or two words that they use to describe the totality of the group. What is the outsider description of your discipline that you find to be most inaccurate, reductionist or plain wrong?
Make your blog post by Friday 9/16 at 11:59pm.
Between then and next class, be sure to read everyone's posts and comment on at least 3.
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