Another "to be honest",

I am actually one to judge people based on the way they speak - which is why I have refused to speak in Chinese for a long time, because my Chinese is terrible and I don't want people thinking I'm dumb.  For some reason it just really bothers me when the accent isn't there, like hearing someone play a guitar out of tune.  It makes me cringe at times.  Partly out of my own will and partly involuntarily.  Everything is music to me - and if sometimes something is not in key, I don't feel very comfortable and will begin making a judgement on that.  Which, I know, is wrong.

However, today my linguistics teacher was telling us about the muscle of the tongue, and I have completely forgotten the tongue was a muscle.  Like gymnastics, for example, to become great and flexible, one must start practicing their muscles while one's little.  And with the tongue, to master an a nice accent of a language, they must begin while they're little, or as my teacher says, before puberty - because that's before all the muscles are set in stone.  So that makes me excited that I'm still kind of going through puberty and learning French, haha.  But it also makes me think more, that probably most of the time the people that I hear with awful English accents honestly can't help themselves.  Though a small portion of it is cognitive, most of it is biological and involuntary.  It's possible and probable to eventually master an accent, it would just take lots and lots of effort which a majority of language-learners surprisingly don't really bother to fix.  I understand it's difficult - just hopefully they stay away from people like me because I'm not as nice as most people think I am.

I also learned a new metaphor today - "Every drop of water makes an ocean".  A friend was telling me how important it was to vote, basically.  I won't go into that because we have rather opposing views when it comes to participating in politics.  All I'm going to say is I do plan on voting for the presidential election, because it's a big one.  Other local and state elections I most likely will not.  Unless Mr. Chiang actually runs for senator.  Or anyone else I know/knew.

Many girls in this world also get angry so easily.  Right when I begin to learn not to take things personally, other people start taking things personally.