{"id":599,"date":"2022-04-06T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:31:22","slug":"blog-post-9-saddling-wild-tongues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/04\/06\/blog-post-9-saddling-wild-tongues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 9: Saddling Wild Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gloria Anzaldua discusses challenges dealing with \u201cwildness\u201d in language in her essay, \u201cHow to Tame a Wild Tongue.\u201d She poses the question of what it means to tame a wild tongue, how to train it to be quiet, and how to make it lie down. Based on her writing, it can be concluded that Anzaldua feels that her language has been silenced and seen as primitive in a country like the United States. She would get in trouble for speaking Spanish, or simply correcting her teacher on how to pronounce her name properly. Anzaldua feels that language is strongly tied to her culture and plays a significant role in her identity. I agree that in order to actually \u201ctame\u201d a wild tongue is to strip individuals of their culture and silence expression. Some words and phrases that are used in other languages do not exist in English, and there is no way to \u201ctame\u201d a wild tongue without essentially assimilating individuals. I would argue that simply speaking a language that is not English is not \u201cwild\u201d (but rather natural), and that there is no need to \u201ctame\u201d a wild tongue. Culture and identity deserve to be expressed, and will always end up prevailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>elina chen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Anzaldua discusses challenges dealing with \u201cwildness\u201d in language in her essay, \u201cHow to Tame a Wild Tongue.\u201d She poses the question of what it means to tame a wild tongue, how to train it to be quiet, and how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/04\/06\/blog-post-9-saddling-wild-tongues-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}