I chose to integrate very few quotes into this essay, simply because I felt it was more of a personal opinion that didn’t necessarily need evidence- it was merely thoughts, not a convincing of opinion. I used only two quotes, and I believe I integrated them relatively well. The first quote came from Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue, an essay on the differences between standard English and what she refers to as “broken” English, meaning English spoken by a non-fluent speaker. I used a quote from her where she describes the English language as fascinating, especially through her daily life in terms of slang. I agreed with this quote, saying that I am “fascinated by language in daily life,” as the evolution and use of daily English is quite interesting, but expounded on the fact that it is also frustrating, due to the lack of patterns and the consistency of change throughout the years. The second quote that I used was from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Learning the Grammar of Animacy, she speculates on English depersonifying nonhuman beings. She talks about the use of the word “it”, and how it reduces the natural living complexity of, say, an animal or a plant. These things are unique and each benefit the world in thousands of ways, and yet we, in English, reduce them to nothing more than “it”. There is no respect. I used both of these quotes, but no more, as I felt it in some ways detracted from the use of my own personal thoughts and feelings on the topic. 

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