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Everyone always says English is the hardest language to learn. This is true not because of structures or conjugations, but because the English language has more slang and 'figures of speech' than any other language. When a person learns English, they must be able to understand the difference between the literal meaning of "go take a hike," and the insult "go take a hike." This is in part why the news is such a complicated matter. In order for the newscasters to be clear and understandable, they need to use words that the general population will understand. However, they also need to try to somehow make the story interesting, because three other stations are most likely carrying the story as well. (And now in Carmel we go to Trevor with the story of the bad soda being served at Bub's....) This ties into our class because it is basically everything we've been learning about with rhetoric and how to connect to an audience. While the newscasters need to work to make things interesting via their word choices, it also has become a competition of camera equipment and who has the best shot of the action. (Well, or the soda machine.) The world of news is changing along with the age of technology, and the newscasters are trying oh so hard to keep up with their vocabularies while remaining accessible to the audience. Obviously they must, in order to save all the citizens of Indiana from corn shortages and bad soda. Do yo thang news people. Do yo thang.