2C: California English

1) 2c: California English
2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English

3) This connects to our study of humanities because it is all about how a culture can have something in common like this "California English." California is special though when it comes to it's own "language" because we are almost separated into North and South, and depending on where you are from in the state, your language is tweaked from the opposite.

4a) Observation: I chose California Language. I felt like a stereotype when i was reading the information. The facts that Northern California and Southern California talk differently, the way they described how no one here calls San Francisco "Frisco" but usually just "the city." It was all very true but odd to read written out like that. California language is two parts, one north one south, and the two rarely blend and it can be hard to communicate between them as well. It is as if we are in two different states, so close but really so far.

4b) Interpretation: California language is about our dialect, the way we in California pronounce certain words and certain vowells. It also is about the abbreviations we use, and where it all derived from.

4c) Judgement: What led me to this choice was that i have always been interested and observed how California is not only so different from the other states of the country, but of the difference with in the state it self. It is funny to think that we actually look at the "So Cal" people differently, we think that they are crazy for some of the things that they say but really we should all be in it together.

4d) Questioning: I would like to know how people chose to go north or south in California, and i would like to know more about people that were once from So Cal and now Nor Cal and vise verse. Before World War I there was a distance southern drawl in Southern California and a Midwestern one in Northern California, now what would we say there is?

5. I learned from Kendra that the Museum of Natural History Museum of L.A. County has more than 35 million specimens and artifacts that go back 4.5 billion years of history! This museum is related to our study of humanities because it can take us WAY back!
http://kendra-human7spring09.blogspot.com/2009/02/2b-natural-history-museum-of-los.html