After reading Vershawn Young’s Should Writer’s Use They Own English, my initial reaction to the text was the “improper English” that Young was using in his text since he’s trying to make the claim that we should decide on what type of English we want to use. As in Jamilia Lysicott’s 3 ways to speak English, she talks about how she talks in three different languages, one for her native tongue, another for the streets, and the last one is a more formal way of speaking. Both Young and Lysicott speak about talking in a way that they are much more comfortable speaking in and they argue on what even makes it proper English. A takeaway from both texts is language is something you make of it. For example, if someone was raised in a neighborhood where a dialect was used more, you as the listener would adapt to that type of dialect and now you will be speaking in that tone with those same exact people. With their unorthodox forms of viewing the English language, I can connect their forms of text to their content by understanding where someone who would speak in Lysicott’s “trilingual English” is coming from or why Young believes English should be a language that should be expressed in our own way. Lysicott especially grabbed my attention when she mentioned her theory of three languages because as someone who comes from a background that knows how to actually three different languages, so using Lysicott’s theory would I be considered a person that speaks four languages including street slang? I agree with some aspects of both Young and Lysciott because I also believe that we should use a language that we are more comfortable with rather than doing a code switch just to match the person that we may be talking to. Young mentions how speaking in our own English can help reduce prejudice which is something I can agree with because if we were to speak in our own ways and express ourselves thoroughly, then we can help end comments that people make due to the way we may speak and are too afraid to say something.