Killing the Speech - "Modern" Kids losing Language and Confidence? - Observed/Poem by Taylor Mali

In Case you hadn´t realised, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know, what you´re talking about.


It's like, you know, the kids like these days all sort of, you know, like talk like this? Know whatImean?


Text by Taylor Mali
Animation by Ronnie Bruce

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Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units, differ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Human speakers (polyglots) are often able to communicate in two or more of them. (Wiki)

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[aBerlin1945]

That was like the best poem ever?

[Lookatthestars98]

Amen?

[zentag770]

What effect did you use for the words?

[Cody Bohler]

yeah but what's ur blog like

[50srefugee]

@AJourneyOf1000Miles:

Also, question authority, but raise your hand first.

There is no contradiction in any of this.

Also, Mali is brilliant.

[HollowPointSurvival]

Sad, but True!

... Too Funny!

[thegfguys]

Im in middle school in a small town and thank heaven that we have not be infected by this dissmannered placing of questions!

[seandeeify]

Brilliant!!!!!!

[endisnighe]

Word.......................?

[AJourneyOf1000Miles]

Are we not allowed to post links?