This tweet is about the word "we" and it is found as a re-tweet on the East Norfolk Twitter feed. It was originally on the SFCF English Language blog with a link to The Guardian, the post itself is written by Gavin Davis. The gist of the piece is conveying ideas on the way we say the word "we" I had never really thought about how other languages would say it differently to us for plural and excluding the people involved in the situation. For example, the word "we" in English may mean "me and my friends all went out the other night it was so funny" not including the person I'm telling the sorry o because they weren't there or the word "we" may refer in the situation of "we had such a laugh didn't we??" if I was asking a question to the friends that I had gone out with therefore including them. However in other languages for example Chinese they have separate words for "we" as we see here in this table.

This topic interested me because there are lots of different ways to say things that people have learnt and this relates to not just language. I always think it's really interesting how in this world we have came up with over 6000 languages to communicate and interact with each other. It also interests me that I wonder how different life would have been if we all spoke one language, I mean would we be creating new languages? I doubt it! Apart from if we created a specific language for social groups of friendships groups more so than we do already with our shibboleths. The way that each language is structured also has similarities and yet differences, the fact that one simple word of "we" has the ability to have so many different ways of saying it could be analysed and shows just how interesting the study of language may be.

This piece of text I chose did not make me laugh nor cry, but it did make me wonder about life on earth because I wonder where all these languages came from? I mean how many people were there on early earth and where did they evolve from? In that case how could so many languages come from just a few species of homosapien which  have evolved into the humans we are today.

In the English A level course I have learnt so many new things, it's been annoying sometimes as I no longer listen to conversations the same after doing a lesson on dialect for example, when speaking to my friends who also do English language we would notice how many times we repeated a word for example "like" in a few sentences. I tend to add the word "like" into my conversations a lot! Therefore learning new things like that really make a difference when I'm reading text or listening to everyday conversations. I think the course so far has made me much more aware of everything from written words and how the language is structured and the reasons behind it! Also learning about non-standard grammar against the queen's English has made me feel like I have an understanding of the type and variations of one language that is English.