Different English's

Do you use different English’s? Why do you choose to speak differently with others? What makes you want to change the way you speak to your friends than to a teacher or professor? Speaking differently to others isn’t wrong but everyone must ask the question why? Some places you need to speak a certain way to be accepted into that part of society.

Personally using different English’s is great. It’s definitely not wrong. Being accepted in society is an important thing. Important for getting a job. Important for getting around in life. Important for millions of reasons but again why?

Speaking to your friends in person is totally different from speaking to a professor or to your boss even. Now day’s young children are speaking the way they write a text message. Using text message you can condense 3 words into 3 letters. For example “I don’t know” is said and written as “IDK.” But when speaking to an adult older than you they would have no idea what that meant. Answering the question why we use different English’s has infinite answers but the different ways kids speak has evolved greatly.

Most of us young adults or at least me change the way we speak to friends and teachers for the simple fact that we want to fit in. If we speak to our friends in proper English it’s totally fine with them but they might feel offended maybe because they think you want to “show they up” or try and look better than them, but again there can a million reason.
Now speaking to a teacher or a total stranger who knows what they’re talking about? You just don’t want to sound stupid! I remember speaking to the first professor I saw on campus and we were having a great conversation except for the fact that he kept correcting me when I didn’t use or say a sentence correctly. Every time he corrected me I felt my face turn redder as we went on. After, I was ready to leave he said he was sorry for embarrassing me by correcting my English but he wanted me to get better. I felt so stupid after I left! I made a promise to myself that I needed to separate the way I spoke to friends and the way I spoke to others.

Still learning different English’s makes me wonder that there really is only one correct English. Still learning how to separate the improper, the slang, and the proper is a challenge but to be successful in this world you need to be able to separate them. The question still wonders in my head, why different English’s? As I continue to learn, that’s when I’ll be closer to the answer or at least my interpretation of it.