Heinrichs discusses code words (200-207). Which words do you identify with? Are any of these words used frequently by an organization you enjoy being with?
It is difficult for me to think of specific groups that I am in that use code words because that would most likely mean I have been slightly manipulated or influenced in some way. On a more positive note, I believe code words are used all throughout religion and particularly in McQuaid. We talk all the time about brotherhood, service, and as in all other schools, school spirit. These certain words that we use daily provide all 1,000 people in the school with a sense of unity and encourage those people to do anything they can for the betterment of the school.
In Boy Scouts, there are a lot of code words used over and over. For example, the Scout Law names particular virtues that are admirable and everyone should live up to. By reciting those virtues over and over again at the start of every meeting, we are impressed with the sense that these are good things and we should all be living the Scout Law. Whenever the scoutmaster is making a speech, he makes sure to hit on some of these and apply them to something we did that meeting.
Code words are used in lacrosse when I play it in the spring. Coaches use code words to abbreviate drills, runs, and specific plays. Code words are also used just in everyday teenage life. Kids are always short handing things and making nicknames for countless of things to change stuff up. It effects all students because it is happening all around them. Lacrosse though I would say is the biggest one because it makes a huge difference what the codes words are and how it effects the game if we cannot recognize them.
My friends and I use "kosher" whenever describing things that are acceptable. My cousin was driving out of the parking lot at McQuaid recently, and someone cut him off when he was trying to exit the side lot. He responded, "C'mon man, not kosher." Reading Heinrichs' mention in Thank You For Arguing being about how people that say "in a pickle" are most likely from the Midwest made me think that since my friends and I are from Brighton, a highly Jewish area, that nobody else uses "kosher" like we do because we are much more exposed to Jewish culture. Very interesting.
It is difficult for me to think of specific groups that I am in that use code words because that would most likely mean I have been slightly manipulated or influenced in some way. On a more positive note, I believe code words are used all throughout religion and particularly in McQuaid. We talk all the time about brotherhood, service, and as in all other schools, school spirit. These certain words that we use daily provide all 1,000 people in the school with a sense of unity and encourage those people to do anything they can for the betterment of the school.
ReplyDeleteIn Boy Scouts, there are a lot of code words used over and over. For example, the Scout Law names particular virtues that are admirable and everyone should live up to. By reciting those virtues over and over again at the start of every meeting, we are impressed with the sense that these are good things and we should all be living the Scout Law. Whenever the scoutmaster is making a speech, he makes sure to hit on some of these and apply them to something we did that meeting.
ReplyDeleteCode words are used in lacrosse when I play it in the spring. Coaches use code words to abbreviate drills, runs, and specific plays. Code words are also used just in everyday teenage life. Kids are always short handing things and making nicknames for countless of things to change stuff up. It effects all students because it is happening all around them. Lacrosse though I would say is the biggest one because it makes a huge difference what the codes words are and how it effects the game if we cannot recognize them.
ReplyDeleteMy friends and I use "kosher" whenever describing things that are acceptable. My cousin was driving out of the parking lot at McQuaid recently, and someone cut him off when he was trying to exit the side lot. He responded, "C'mon man, not kosher." Reading Heinrichs' mention in Thank You For Arguing being about how people that say "in a pickle" are most likely from the Midwest made me think that since my friends and I are from Brighton, a highly Jewish area, that nobody else uses "kosher" like we do because we are much more exposed to Jewish culture. Very interesting.
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