I can agree and disagree with the statements after reading I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar by Kyle Wiens. Yes, having good grammar and using commas and semicolons correctly is essential. But I should not get hired for a position because it is a little extreme. Let’s say you make a simple mistake. That does not mean you have bad grammar; it simply means you just made a mistake. Again, aside from people with dyslexia and English not being a person’s first language, you can make exceptions for those people. It is essential to know the difference between the words buy and bye and two too and to, and there they are because, for certain jobs, you have to be grammatically correct, especially for those that require a lot of writing. I also read the reading called African American Language is Good English by Zachary Martin. I found this article interesting because it talks about how people who use “Black English” are seen as thugs and gang bangers. But that shouldn’t be the case because just because we may talk a certain way with our friends does not mean we would talk to everyone like that. It is called code-switching, which means knowing when to use appropriate language. The way I may speak to my friends who are black is not the way I would talk to my friends who are not black, and there is nothing wrong with that; it is just something that people do so that the people who they are talking to understand them. How you speak to your college professors and or teachers differs from how you talk to your parents. It has a lot to do with who you are talking to and knowing what is ok to say and how you say it.
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