Uuugh todays last day of semester : c theirs no way im passing this year : '( i still have too much edginuity to get done really but for me it is for no graduation w/ my twin sister n best friend dang thats cause i been trying so hard this year but ig my hardest isnt hard enough uuugh im just so disapointed in my self rn im not good at english or ipc or geomatry thats the worst what am i going to
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Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”