Quote: "So if you really want to hurt me, talk badly about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity. I am my language."
Question: Does this statement hold true for everybody. Are we just as identifiable through our language as our ethnicity?
Hi John! I think that this statement holds true for a great majority of people in today's society. In an essence, we are our language because language is central to our identity. Thus, if our language and way of speaking is attacked, then so are we. For example, both women and men who use vocal fry are shamed for their vocal projection error. While this is a common error amongst both men and women, there is only so much they can do to stop it from occurring - deeming them as less "intelligent" than people who do not use vocal fry solely due to their dialect/language.
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