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  1. Sep 2022
    1. Code meshing what we all do whenever we communicate—writin, speakin, whateva.Code meshing blend dialects, international languages, local idioms, chat-roomlingo, and the rhetorical styles of various ethnic and cultural groups in both formaland informal speech acts

      explains what code meshing is

    2. Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teach languagedescriptively. This mean we should, for instance, teach how language functionswithin and from various cultural perspectives. And we should teach what it taketo understand, listen, and write in multiple dialects simultaneously

      this is mainly what the entire writing might be about, and it is something that i might be inclined to support, this is a very convincing hook that reels in readers to continue reading to learn more about the topic

    3. Teachin speakin and writin prescriptively, as Fish want, forcepeople into patterns of language that aint natural or easy to understand

      another supporting point from the writer

    4. dominant language ideology

      use of a specifc term that I think is important to the understanding of the point / argument the writer is making toward supporting the subject they are writing about

    5. nobody’s language, dialect, or style make them “vulnerable to preju-dice.” It’s ATTITUDES.

      they are saying that discouraging writers using their own speech because it will make the vulnerable to prejudice isn't try and that its because of their personal persona or attitude

    6. It be the way folks with some power perceive other people’slanguage

      goes on to state thaat their attitudes that are portrayed in their writings is a matter of perception of different language- I think that this might mean that perception of different language could refer to the gap and lack of understanding of different cultures between a reader and the writer of the text

    7. there only one way to speak and write toget ahead in the world, that writin teachers should “clear [they] mind of the ortho-doxies that have taken hold in the composition world” (“Part 3”). He say dont nostudent have a rite to they own language if that language make them “vulnerableto prejudice”; that “it may be true that the standard language is [...] a device forprotecting the status quo, but that very truth is a reason for teaching it to students

      sets a goal of the text and what the writer might be trying to get across to the readers