dialect

Chloe Brotherton

English 1510

October 5, 2012

Dennis Baron Dialect

“For many of us, the computer revolution came long ago, and it has left its mark on the way we do things with words.”

For me, the computer revolution occurred while I was growing up, so that was pretty neat.  I remember I first used a computer in kindergarten, and it was on a Microsoft Word.  I would write the word “cat” (but I didn’t use a keyboard, we had this thing were we picked a letter out of the alphabet with our mouse) and then used clip art and added a picture of a cat… Oh have things changed since then.  I wish it was still that simple!

“I readily admit my dependence on the new technology of writing.”

I don’t know how I would survive without Microsoft Word or any of the new technologies of writing on computers, either.  I can’t imagine school without it.  I have Microsoft Word 2010 on my computer and my mom has either 2005 or 2006 and I cannot stand that version!  I refuse to use it—this shows how much the new technology means to me.

“Of course the first writing technology was writing itself.  Just like the telegraph and the computer, writing itself was once an innovation strongly resisted by traditionalists because it was unnatural and untrustworthy.”

It’s amazing, if you think about it, how far writing has come.  I never really considered writing a technology like the telephone or computer until now.  I cannot imagine college writing with only a pen and paper.  Writing is really something innovative.