Being able to adapt from slang to being professional is like from being a child to becoming an adult because it takes time, effort, patience, growth, and a learning process. Starting from a baby, mostly parents would always be the influence until you get old enough to be expose to different environments. With new people besides your parents, you become influence and adapt by all these mixture of different languges. Thats when they choose how and what to adapt between slang and professionalism.
I'm thankful for being able to adapt between slang and professionalism. Before, friends had an influence on me and I would be like "fasho" or "What It Do Homie". As around my family, I would do my best to keep proper language to advoid being in trouble. My slang started to fade away when I was in high school. I started speaking out in a formal tone because of the classes I was taking. Now I like using professional langauge more than slang. So I'm happy to know when to use slang and professional speech.
I agree how you mentioned that being able to adapt from slang to being professional takes time, effort, patience, growth and a learning process because i had a similar experience. Not everyone is raised by professional communication and as for me i was raised by a lot of slang. It wasn't until last year i joined a job readiness program and i noticed that i was very unprofessional. Adapting at first wasn't very easy because sometimes words that i wasn't suppose to say slipped out naturally. It took a lot of time, effort, patience, growth and a learning process that payed off at the end. It was a great experience and because of it now i am able to completely separate my personal and professional life from each other. I Enjoyed reading your blog, it made me realize how i'm not the only one that has adapted along the way
ReplyDeletei like how you added that friends do have some influence on speech. i had to deal i situation like yours with myself but in my case it was the opposite, i needed the slang to learn how to code switch.
ReplyDeleteI agree and can relate to how you say"You made sure to speak proper english around your family and nowIlie to spea standard english because of most of the settings i am in.
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