Fighting words “The Battle of Words” Warring Words

Tannen v. Graff the battle of these two individuals has spawned the conversations of words we use and why the words we use have unintended effects. For example, Smashed v. Bumped, this presentation of words hold a different empathize than Smashed and Bumped, because by use of v. (versus) I have create a sense of conflict in the readers mind. That’s part of what Tannen and Graff are arguing, that we as a culture have decided to maintain a sense of war by using phrases and words associated with battle. The biggest question is, why? I know that I don’t have the answer, but I have thought of why we might be stuck in conflict with our words. Perhaps it’s the power behind these particular words that we see them as deterrents, but maybe the ruling sense or emotion of the public was fear. I say was because I think the past was a common place of fear during the era of WWII and The Cold War, and during this term of fear we had instilled the language of war we know today. But I know that today still holds instances of conflict, internal and external, but scale of conflict has lessen and the warring terms are overused, so that we don’t think of the emotion behind this words. We need to change the words we use, moving away from battle phrases and overused statements, so we may create a different worldly emotion that isn’t the fear. Because I see the warring words as a creator of a nation of fear, a nation we have unknowingly created, but can still change. Tannen and Graff have show us the power of words and argument, so let’s take that understanding and change the emotion behind the words we are using and substitute them for a better world of words.