Reflection Week 3

This week in class we are learning about language and how we all communicate. I find the ways that we communicate as a people very interesting. The video that we watched was rather interesting to me because it went in depth on how we use verbal and body language to communicate to one another. The most interesting thing I found out about the video is that body language is universal and that we all use it. However, each symbol is different from country to country. For example, the peace sign in America means something completely different its actually insulting, its used to belittle another individual in most countries. Also, a thumbs up in America means good job or great, however its origins meant to put someone to death or spare their life. It just shows that life is different everywhere you go and that we all operate much differently from one another. I find this so interesting how language has changed over time and we progressed as a people.
We communicate very differently and we should take the time to learn from one another. Even within the U.S we all talk differently depending on the region you live in, the Soda, Pop, Coke experiment is a clever one and it proves how much differently we talk. Coming to North Dakota it was something new and awkward to hear people say the word "bag", "beg" and they don't hear no difference in the two they just know what they are referencing. In addition to that I did my own little experiment and came to a conclusion that North Dakotans pronounce the -ag sound like -eg for words containing these sounds. It makes me wonder how that came to be.
All in all, we need language to communicate its something that will never die, meaning language was around long before man could even talk. Personally this subject makes me think about how we communicate and how much language changes from region to region and then from country to country.