Language is just how we communicate, or so I thought up until this week. Language actually defines who we are, our values, how we view the world, and how we view ourselves.  We need language to communicate with each other though, to prosper in the world. But how do we do this when everyone in the world generally speaks a different language? We pass judgment on many other languages that we don’t speak for the main reason that we just don’t understand them. This creates the cultural line, stopping much communication between people of different descents. Just imagine when you’re at the nail salon (if you happen to go from time to time) and you are greeted by an Asian woman or man, once you sit down and you pedicure or manicure is started and the workers start to talk amongst themselves. We stare in awe at them as we assume that they are talking about how we didn’t want to upgrade to the deluxe pedicure. When for all we know they could be talking about daily normalcies. Because of this lack of knowledge of different languages, we just assume things, assuming the worst. Languages are just so different they create this wall between us, keeping ideas from being shared, stopping the ever so changing world.

And with that, the above paragraph has been edited to perfection, so every English speaker could understand the message being sent forth. And it continues to be edited as I make continuous errors even writing this sentence. With the ever-prospering technology, comes the ability for a computer, phone, tablet, etc. to basically talk and convey our messages for us. As a teenager, I could say that about 50% of the teenage population text-talks. I’m sure if you listened to any conversations in the hallway you’ll have heard “Lol”, “omg” or the recently popular “rt” which stands for the twitter use of retweet. Because technology has taken such an important role in our life, primarily texting, we have adapted to continuing to text-talk outside of our phones. Auto correct is a different story, we have adapted to understanding the many common auto correction, *uck to duck, u to you, etc. We have also learned to ignore the absolute insane auto corrections; we just wait for the person we are texting to correct themselves, and then blame it on auto correct.

As technology continues to advance and take bigger and bigger roles in our lives, it will eventually take over entirely. I could see the text-talking becoming the normal talk, just to save time, and just because it’ll be the normal way of talking. Although I do hope that the most of our generation tries to stop themselves from making this drastic change, and at least stop themselves from text-talking to their parents, teachers, or any other elders. Technology will develop the new social norm for the basic human being, taking over our lives more and more…..*drags out for suspense and effect* each day.

Many of us (women) debate which shaving cream is the best, which leaves our skin moisturized and looking smooth. We see advertisements for silky, smooth, and skinny legs, which lead us on in a way. We want to achieve this look of skinny, tanned, smooth legs, even though we know this shaving cream won’t change our size and look of our legs. So why do we still buy into this?

In this ad you see a very tanned and skinny leg on the scene of a beach. The person is wearing a white dress that makes her tanned, smooth leg pop, this was very orchestrated by the company, wanting it to seem very natural and relaxed, but in reality this shot probably took many times to get just right. Then your eye next is pulled to the glowing shaving cream, which is very tropical, bight and enticing to the eye. The bottles seem to give off an aura. In the very middle of the ad you see in bold, white text; which reads “Deliciously smooth”, the ad is comparing the feel of our legs to the taste of food, what a classic move. Advertisements seem to always compare the look of things, in this case legs, to the emotional taste and feel of food. Now let me point this out, if the ad used a very pale girls leg, would you still want this shaving cream? The knee of this leg seems to be smoothed; no edge or curve seems to stand out. The more and more you look at this leg you see how photo shopped and unrealistic it is, its perfectly tanned and smooth to capture their slogan “deliciously smooth”.  And what a unique name for a shaving cream company…. “Shave”. The company also uses very bright and enticing colors for their bottles, because we all know when we go to the store, the bottle that sticks out the most, being the prettiest is going to be the one we pick up, the one the teenage girl begs their mother for, all because the bottle is pretty.  What a smart move.