Blog 6: Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs

In chapter five it talks about homonyms, homophones, and homographs. Homonyms words that have different meanings. Homophones are words that sound like each other such as to, too, and two. Homographs are words that have the same spelling, although the way you say it and the meaning are different.  Each of these components are similar to one and other that may sound confusing and we wouldn't be able to tell what the word means, if it wasn't for the context of the sentence. The video above is a very cheesy song about homophones, but it does get the message across, how the words can be confused from another word.

Link: Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs 

Blog 5: The Five Senses

Link: Five Senses In Human Communication 

I choose this topic because I thought it was interesting how we use our five senses to communicate. We think that the process of the senses are simple, but there are so much things that take place when receiving these messages. 

First sight, we can see the facial expressions, gestures, and the body language of other person or thing. These pictures we see turns upside down to your brain then your brain tells you what kind of response you make of the picture.

Second is hearing, this is the most common way of communicating. In the ear there are three parts where the sounds travel to send messages to the brain. The outer dart is the first part where sound goes through to get to the eardrum. Then the sounds goes to the middle ear where sound becomes louder. Last part is the inner ear where the tiny hairs in the cochlea sends the signals to the brain. By having two ears we can tell where the directions of these sounds are coming from.

Third taste, babies are a great example that displaying the sense taste to communicate.  Babies are learning how the world works by tasting everything around them to see what they can or cannot eat, which can be funny sometimes. In your tongue there are these things called taste buds that sense four different types: sour, sweet, bitter, salty. The front of your tongue you can taste sweet, the back you can taste bitter, the sides you can taste sour, and the all your tongue can pretty much taste salty.

Fourth touch, we feel things to communicate. For an example we shake hands with one and other to show agreement or a polite way of greeting someone. Another example is people hugging each other to show they are friends or they are happy with each others company.We are touching things there are receptors in the skin that send signals to the brain.

Finally smell, the hairs in our noses called sensory hairs is what helps us distinguish the different smells in the world. For an example smoke if there is fire around you or the wonderful smell of flowers. 

I find how each of the senses works in order for us to communicate interesting in its own way. I agree with the article our senses does help us a lot in communicating. Each of the five senses does its contribution for us to recognize everything the way it is or the way it is not. the article does make me want to learn more as to how exactly this works. This most definitely affects the world because if we didn't have our senses we will be robots who can't feel anything or experience for ourselves.

Blog 4: Morse Code

Link: Morse Code

While I was watching ones of my favorite shows, Bones, love that show. Anyways in one of the episodes they had to use analog types of technology in order to communiceate without being track at all. My thoughts lead to one thing then another and somehow I started to think about morse code, a type of communication using a telegraph. What I really thought was fascinating was the different combinations of dots and slashes there are for each letter of the alphabet. I agree with the article saying that when there is a difficult situation morse code is a great way to communicate. For an example in the military they sometimes use the morse code to communicate. If they had not use the morse code then their plans could have been exposed to enemies, so yes this can affect the world. Of course this makes me want to learn more about morse code to communicate in such difficult situations.

Blog 3: Autism Childern

Link: Affects In Communication 

One of my friends takes care of autism kids because her brother also has autism. This is what made me wonder, more aware, to learn about autism people. I soon realized that autism can affect their communication to learn words and to communicate with other people. While most babies will listen and try to imitate their parents words. Some autism children will be more interested in sounds, for and example a vacuum. There are some autism children that have a huge vocabulary and use long sentences, but when it come down to social interaction it is difficult for them. I found this quiet interesting. Autism can make it very difficult to make friends due to the social interaction that they might lack. I agree with the article autism can have affects to communication, but I do wish I knew the reason why. Also, making me want to learn more as to why we cannot figure out the reason autism makes communication hard for them. This does affect the world because if we learn more about autism, maybe we can communicate in way that it does not make them uncomfortable.