Discourse Community

About a week ago, we learned in class about discourse community and the language that is used in each. We wrote a short essay about in class and that was about it with that subject. Well last night, I went to Millbrook with my boyfriend to meet me dad and brother at a Habeneros to grab something to eat and catch up since I haven't seen them in a little over a week. After that we went back to my dads house to just visit with him and since my brother's wife was out of town so he went with us. We stayed there for about 4 or 5 hours, just sitting around talking. During most of that time, I was just listening because it was very obvious I was not apart of their discourse community. My dad, brother and boyfriend were talking away about anything from fourwheeler parts, tractor parts, how they've fixed old trucks they've traded something else for, and every thing else they could think of. My boyfriend works for a logging company and he was showing pictures on his phone of some kind of part he broke last week. He tried showing me and telling me what it what, but it was like they were speaking a whole other language. I had no idea what they were talking about pretty much the whole time. I think I did catch some of the conversation and something about my boyfriend is going to get my brother a truck he wants to trade his mud truck for, or something like that. All the talk about trucks, parts, tractors, fourwheelers, and whatever else they were talking about was completely over my head. That is when the whole discourse community thing came into play and I realized that I was obviously not apart of it.