Sista Tongue - Review

This collaboration seems to focus mainly on language, and how it is different among different cultures of people. It seems like they try to show how many different people are using English, and how it can always sound very different. The purpose, as far as I can tell, is to inform the public on the differences in the English language. If you are from a Hawaiian dissent, you will speak differently than someone from the inner city of Chicago, who will speak differently than someone from upstate New York. There are many different way to use language, and while talking about it in this piece, it even uses different genres to use those different types of speech. The main audiences seems to be almost everyone, but could be focused on people interested in communication or speech.

I thought that each different genre promoted a different idea, but I felt like the first one seemed to be the most out there. I liked that it used a different form of English, but I did not like the way it was set up. The way in which some words were bigger, and how at some points there were random statements. It seemed very bumpy, and not to the point. I feel if they were able to arrange it a little better, it would have added more to the piece.

I don't know if I really gained or lost anything after reading this. The different genres were interesting, but again, sometimes hard to follow. I think that is mostly do to the arrangement. I wish they would have been able to make the first genre more clear (maybe the point was to be unclear?).

The piece really created a repeating atmosphere. On one part, due to the subject, but also going back and forth between the genres and way in which they were presented on the page made it flow much better.

I feel that this one was meant to be more polished, but it came off as messy and unclear. That is just my opinion, and again, I think it is just the fact that I did not like the arrangement of some of the writing. On a whole though, the piece did a good job of creating a multi-genre paper, while still connecting all of the pieces in an interesting fashion.