Week of Class

This week of class I thought was pretty interesting. On Tuesday we were talking about some things and the topic of certain words and how they are pronounced came up and the word was “aunt”, and some people pronounce it “ant” and others pronounce it “aunt”, which how I think it should be pronounced. You also said how language is living and I kind of thought about that a little bit and I would agree with that. Another thing we talked about was denotation and connotation. I remember learning about these in earlier schooling but didn’t really remember but now that we talk about it again I remember what those words mean. We also talked a little bit about proxemics and how people need their personal space. With some people they really get bothered when people stand really close to them or talk to them really close. I do not really get bothered when people I know talk or stand close to me but when people I do not know talk to me up close I kind of get annoyed and step back hoping to not offend them, but sometimes it does. On Thursday Matt talked to the class about disabilities and I thought that was very interesting. Every person with a disability is different, but people with disabilities should be treated the same as people without disabilities. He told us some courtesy things for when you come across a person with a disability such as treating them the same, not to stare at them, and not to ignore them as well. When you start to talk to a person with a disability you want to start the conversation the same way you would with any other person. Tanya also talked about how she became disabled and I really thought that was a touching story. I also learned how CP is not genetic and it can happen to anyone.