Lived Literacy

Lived literacies

After I graduated from high school, I realized that as I grown up, the language use has been changed for several times. As a kid, I never pay attention to what I said and I had no idea the consequences of what I said. When I finished middle school, I known that the word I said had significant effect on other people. After I entered college, I understood that the proper way to communicate with different people. I will show few examples of myself to demonstrate the learning process of my own.

when I was a kid, I like to pick nickname for others. My father gained a lot of weight when I was 8, so I always called him big belly. After a while, instead of calling him dad, I called him big belly all the time. My father seemed to feel quite well about his nickname; but sometimes my mother told me that this was a very impolite way to call my father but I always ignore what she said and called my father’s nickname until I went to middle school. This episode shows that I didn’t think about the consequence of what I said to others; and also I ignored other people's advice. My father can tolerate me because he knew that I'm too young to understand the language use. Still, when I remembered this experience, I felt very sorry to my father.

Another example is that I also picked up a lot of nickname for my classmates in school. For instance, one of my classmates are very thin and black, so I called him monkey and it turned out that the whole class called him this way. First of all, he was very upset about the nickname, but after a while, he accepted the fact and felt nothing about the nickname. After few years of graduation, I ran out of him one time and I felt like calling his nickname shows more intimacy and we still act like old friend. I think that the nickname shorten the distance between me and my friend. At this time, the nickname is the sigh of friendship. It represents the good memories we spent together. So in this case, nickname is not annoying;...