Although I've utilizes the label for this post, I'll leave the discussion of home/classroom language to my peers; however, I will state that as students, I feel it is incumbent upon us to at least become familiar with academic (classroom) language, as well as develop an ability to utilize it (even if only in a novice fashion).

To speak to the reading, as I mentioned to the professor before, I didn't really enjoy the "Way We Was" reading (or whatever it was titled). The only idea I derived from it is language is, in many ways, derived from culture, but in spite of this, the Chomskyian theories of universal grammar seem to prevail.

However, the Jordan and Lee pieces were very insightful; Jordan's description of the deployment of Black English as a political act was inspiring, and it was reassuring to see that discursive politics are still important in our age of apathy.

Lee's piece illustrated to me what I have for a long time considered a crisis - IM and text language being introduced into common usage - but I don't see it that way so much anymore (in large part due to this class). While I no longer believe we face a crisis, I do believe that there is still a need for educating students in the distinction between IM/Text language use and classroom language use.