After reading Should Writers Use Their own English by Vershawn Young, I was surprised by the way the essay was written and the messages he tries to get across. Vershawn Young wrote in English that is not proper. He wrote this essay in his own tongue. The tongue that he uses to write this essay is the same tongue he would use if he was around friends or on the street. In Jamilia Lyiscotts video, we see her explain that just because she can speak a different type of English, it does not mean that she is below anybody. She brings up the idea of being trilingual. One tongue being her proper English, the other being her Jamaican tongue, and the third one being the English used in the streets. Young and Lyiscott both used their own tongues in order to get their message across because they did not feel like they had to speak ‘proper’ English to do so. Vershawn Young grabbed my attention when he said, “If he meant everybody should be thrilled to learn another dialect, then wouldnt everybody be learnin everybody’s dialect? Wouldnt we all become multidialectal and pluralingual? And that’s my exact argument, that we all should know everybody’s dialect, at least as many as we can, and be open to the mix of them in oral and written communication.”(Young) It grabbed my attention because Young ‘s argument is that if we can all learn to accept others’ English, then we can get rid of the singular form of English that is expected from us. I agree with both writers. A persons level of intelligence and literacy should not be determined based on whether or not they can speak or write in proper English. Everybody has the right to express themselves how they would like to. I enjoyed reading Youngs essay because it was the first time I had read a text that used his type of vocabulary. I’m so accostuned to reading in proper English, just like all of my past teachers have told me to do so that I found Youngs writing to be more interesting.