Lang and Lit Rainier Fourie

How to Pay for a Baby – Analytical Paragraph  The article “How to Pay for a Baby” by online author Kool A.D. is an informative, entertaining and strange enough, a political text. The author Kool A.D. uses slang, explicit language, metaphors, and other literary devices to convey a humorous advice column on how to pay for a baby, that overlays his main objective of, criticizing America’s capitalist ideology.  The article is conveyed as a lousy and unreliable piece of text, but when dissected you see, Kool A.D., uses this mask, to cover and show us, the readers, criticism of America’s capitalist ideology. He uses slang and explicit language mostly, to convey this message. He doesn’t use it to directly confront capitalistic ideology but to skirt around it. The whole article is a metaphor, and the author uses this language to try to connect to younger audiences. He makes references to pop-culture such as, Netflix and Jordans, and also uses a different...

Blog Entry 1- Introduction A little something about me: Hi, My name is Rainier and I’m from South Africa. I was born in Cape Town. I moved to the USA when I was 3 years old, and lived there until I was 11. I moved back to South Africa, stayed for a year, then moved yet again, to the UAE. I am studying in Raha International school for the past 6 years. I play rugby and enjoy sport and fitness. And food, lots and lots of food. I love learning new things, especially languages, even though I am really bad at them. I can speak Afrikaans (semi fluently), English (kinda) , and I’m learning French. I can get by with Dutch and Flemish. I basically can’t speak anything. Language as had a major role in my life in many different aspects of my life. It defines who I am as a person, I feel. Being bilingual I can communicate to a broader range of people, and being Afrikaans I can talk to people in South Africa and Nambia, and at least understand enough of the language in Holland a...