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Classification Essay: What Are Different Types Of English?

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Waking up in the morning and giving my mother a simple goodbye, then to my first class at college where I have an intellectual conversation with one of my peers to have my attention drawn to a phone call from one of my friends and talking about shoes and the latest tracks. For every situation or environment, I am in there is a type of English for it. The types I use while at school, home or out with my friends all vary from one another and also share some characteristics. I use a different type of English to communicate my ideas more efficiently and use the correct type for appropriate situations when at school, home or with friends.
Home, the place where I can be myself and use whatever type of English, I want but not in the sense of a bad way. Usually at home I speak less sophisticated as I would at school. The reason for this not just because of the environment I am in. but rather not everyone would understand what I mean. My younger siblings …show more content…

Even though I may act different while I am with my friends compared to with my girlfriend my English is the same. This type of English most definitely contains profanity but more importantly it contains all the sayings I use exclusively with friends. By sayings I mean things me and my friends use with each other and is an inside thing so if i used it with anyone else they would not understand. One of these sayings is used every time a certain friend and I answer a call or facetime and it is "Yo Pi'erre", which is used in songs we both listen to. Using this type of English, I can easily be myself with no restrictions on what I say because it does not matter. I also can express what I am saying to friends because we use the same type of English amongst one another. What makes this English different is the sayings and other profanity that I would never use at school or at

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