I belong to a variety of tight knit communities, some with a few strands missing. First things first, my number one community is my family. I also belong to my school, the University Of Memphis community with subsets. I am a part of the labor force community, due to the high shopping habit I maintain and bills since I am independently supporting myself. Since leisure time is essential, I reside in my favorite hobby community, dancing, when there is time to.
As expected, the community with the screws missing is no othger than my dysfunctional, yet unbreakable family. The discoarse in this community is rather thrilling and far from restricted. When we converstae we speak on whatever comes to mind first, at its rawest form. Thus, not many rules of language are applied. On the honest tip, our words consist of 70% of slang, 5% ebonics, and 25% our own made up words. To illustrate, a family member might say, 'ay, where mama-nem?', I would respond, 'iono prolly out hiiting the town!' The average outsider's facial expression would read ??? When in reality the conversation went, "Hey where is your mother....I am unsure, she is probably out shopping." Anything from politics to an orangatang eating his booger is accepted. ;-)
With the University Of Memphis community there is a structured strand of discoarse that students, professors, faculty, and alumni are aware of. Students use "proper" language when speaking to their professor, or atleast its generally expected. I would not greet my teacher by saying 'yo, wassup mane' as I would within my friend community. Instead the phrase 'hey, how you doing today?' would best suit that situation. In the school commnity terms like syllabus, ecourseware, exams,etc are used. The subsets that I am involved in, Black Scholar Honor Society and P.a.u.s.e are similar in that sense, being that those terms are used when its time to scan each students academic progress. These communities also are similar because they each speak of professionalism and proper etiquette. However the general umbrella of school and actual organizations dicsoarse differs, because other things like activities and extravaganzas are discussed versus just course work.
The work force community is the least of my desire list. Its is similar to other communities I am involved in with money being the main language and motive. It differs due to its own language. In my friends circle I woudlnt say, 'the cold line suffered from losses of sides.' They would be absolutely puzzled at what I am saying. it would merely sound like French!! For example, a person working at Moe's would know what the steam, ring, swing, and hot and cold lines are versus a person working at Finish Line. Its further proven that each job relates to another by their title of a 'job' but srill differs. A to go order to Moe's would be an equivalent meaning of a delivery to Finish Line, same essence, different discoarse.
On my number 1 list of communities is my leisure dance team, Creatix. This is my breath of fresh air to a suffocating, depressing school day. Our conversations are similar to my family's, anything goes. There is an invisible open door policy in effect that each member abides to. However, it differes from the other communities discoarse because the tone is always relaxed, no sophisticated language is required because we are all one. No higher ranking or authority exists. Furthermore, Creatix has its on lingo relatable to all dancers and teams. Words like 8-counts, 4-teys, and iclecone are significant to the dance world only. You wouldnt tell your friend 'hey, lets 4-tey in the snow! Instaed you would say, 'hey lets take a spin in the snow!', unless they are a dancer too ;-0.
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