Literacy and Language

  In continuing the discussion on literacy I feel it necessary to mention the separation of regions, dialects, and social classes as mentioned in the readings. I will admit I had very little knowledge of the number of variations of the Spanish language. These variations strengthen the bonds of the local community by drawing them nearer with a common bond, while spreading the language as a whole at the same time. This can be a good thing to a  certain degree, but does it also come with a price? Will regional, social, and dialect variations cause us to one day get so far from a central language that one person may be misjudged or subject to prejudice because another's misinterpretation.  Another thing that I feel is changing is the bountries that prevent these variations of language from spreading. The most obvious boundary has always been physical, seperation of colonies and tribes by land and water created it's own limits on where any given language could travel. In the present, the physical boundaries are no longer an issue to a greater majority of our country and I would think the civilized world in general. As technology, networking, and more specifically social networking expands we will only become closer to those in other cultures and parts of the world, perhaps picking up subtleties in other languages and incorporating and infusing them into our own. While, this will be something that would likely take years or decades to begin seeing in our everyday lives, I am certain that one day we will begin to see it. I think people today take for granted how easily language is changed and manipulated, even within a family, from generation to generation there are differences that are brought on only by influences in society. Will it be for the better or for the worse? That is for us to decide.