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Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Do Emoji’s Count As A Language? Tara Gentz Language is an ever evolving form of art, and emoji’s are no different. Emoji’s have captivated the 21st century mind, including my own. There is nothing more exciting than … Continue reading Wordplay: Do Emoji’s Count As A Language?

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Sentence Structure Tacie Lucas   What is sentence structure? Is it that important when writing a paper or even talking? Sentence structure is very important when writing papers and communicating. If we didn’t have sentence structure, grammar … Continue reading Wordplay: Sentence Structure

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) What the **** Is Up with Swearing? by Jessica Whetham The ambiguity that exists in the English language can be quite confusing to people who are not familiar with it, but can be fun for people who … Continue reading Wordplay: What the **** Is Up with Swearing?

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Texting vs. Literacy by Madison Franklin How many texts do you suppose you send out a day? When you are out in public, how many people do you see texting or on their phones? I am not an … Continue reading Wordplay: Texting vs. Literacy

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Normal Abbreviations or Texting Abbreviations: What’s the Big Deal? Katie Strohschein In today’s society it seems like all the children I see have a phone in their hands, and these children are interacting with others in some … Continue reading Wordplay: Normal Abbreviations or Texting Abbreviations

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Language and the Thought Process by Peyton Flack Have you ever wondered how language affects our thoughts? Are our thoughts limited to the words we know in our language? What language do bilingual people think in? Can … Continue reading Wordplay: Language and the Thought Process

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Oxford Comma Use for All by Mattie Duzik Using a comma is a very important little piece of punctuation. A comma is that tiny pause we hear and take when speaking or reading.  Commas break up clauses, … Continue reading Wordplay: Oxford Comma Use for All

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) The Mystery of Learning Language by Maddison Cox Have you ever thought about how children really learn to speak? When children are born, they are immediately exposed to all kinds of sounds that they have never heard … Continue reading Wordplay: The Mystery of Learning Language

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Grammar Instruction in the Classroom by Shauna Coburn Have you ever thought about the grammar instruction you were given as a child? Were you taught countless rules that you could never remember, or were you taught simply … Continue reading Wordplay: Grammar Instruction in the Classroom