Saturday, September 5, 2009

Mother Tongue

It is obvious that the language speaking from different generations are different, even though they use the same one.

My father always gives me an impression of strictness and solemn. He skimps his words. Whenever he talks, he will try to use as least words as he can. However, at this situation, I am always being upset, for I don't know what he is going to talk about and whether the affairs he talks about is positive or negative. If something he mentions is bad and is related to me, then I will be in trouble. If things are positive, and no matter whether it is closed to me, I can never get even a "good". The language my father uses is as brief as possible. My mother is a talktive lady with whom the conversation would be extremely verbose, tedious, dull, and endless. She is always murmuring no matter whether the affair she mentions is important or not. When I go to school in the morning, I'd better do not tell her. If I say "goodbye mom, I'm leaving for school", then I will probably be 10 minutes late for my first class, for she tends to stop me from leaving and burst out endless words. Then she will ask me to put on one more cloth because the weather forecaster says it's going to be 5 degrees lower than yesterday. After I put on the cloth she assign and get ready to leave, she will ask me to be aware of the traffic and do not cross the road when the traffic light is rad. I am tired of her mutter but I can do nothing but being 10 late for my class only. I don't save words to my good friends, but to strangers or the people I am not very familiar with, I would probably be a little bit shy and be in silence. My litter cousin is 5 years old now. He is so and cute innocent that he doesn't know what he ought to say and what he ought not to. He wil point out that a certain art work is so ugly to the face to its painter and he will cry out the food tastes so bad before the host in a party. He speaks regardless of whether he is in a proper situation. For instance, he whispers even everybody is in silence around him in a very formal ceremony. On my parents' opinion, he is too younge to tell what and when he can speak.

In light of the above examples, I completely agree that the language used in different generations are undoubtedly different.

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