5.- The History of the English Language
Watch the following video and write a report of the history of the English language. Your report has to be cohesive and entertaining as well. Post your response as a comment below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s
Rolando Ramirez Mackintosh./ Valle./6
ResponderEliminarIN the beginning English was not spoken in UK, after Romans have left UK Anglo, Saxon and jutes arrive the leave words like (house,woman,loaf) and the names of the day of the week came from their gods names: tuesday,wednesday,thuersday,friday. then a king came and started to spoke French while most of the people does not, but after some time French began common and many words such as judge, boulevar...porc,beef were been used. William Shakespeare invented more than 2000 words and phrases, he wrote poetry which was powerful phrases that demonstrated the beauty of the language.
in 1611 were traduced from Latin to English by a huge team called the wisdom of Salomon, this sexy new bible was written in a very easy language, making people reading understandable and easier, then it spread through the world. in 1660 science began to be spoken on English because everything had to be explained in Latin, some people did not understand, they asked to be taught on their language so new word from Scientifics were added like, electricity, pendulum, gravity, and also the parts of the body had new English words.
The British empire go through the world and conquered new places, first at Caribbean island, India, Australia, Africa countries and so on, in each place they conquered they got new words from the vocabulary of its land, words like, nugget, boomerang, zombie… when English started to be spoken on many places, some guys decided to write down the words and their definitions, because everybody used to write as they want, and imagined the word, so there were lot of different between some writing words. One of the most important dictionary took 10 years to be fully completed.
American English was enriched by European people who traveled to USA giving hundreds of new words from their vocabulary, as USA grow up in economy, social and political issues new invented words came out, then American English went to England, these two variation of English were complemented by different expressions and words especially American English which took more of England.
When computer arrive and internet became popular new words like firewall,toolbar, started to be common abbreviations like: in my humble opinion IMHO, you’ve got to be kidding U2BK etc were becoming more usual as youth used them on their phone and internet messages.
With modern English some big countries such as China and India modified uses of words, adapting words and expressions to their language culture they also added words form their own language, this huge mixture of words made richer this language in those countries and give a new version of it.