The two languages are very similar, so much that it is very easy to
The two languages are very similar, so much that it is very easy to
The Church of Please and Thank You “One of the big moments in the spread of English took place in India in 1835. [British politician] Thomas Babington Macaulay proposed that English be used to create a class of Indian middlemen who would be sympathetic to British interests, without the necessity of large numbers of British citizens coming out and running the show” (Traves 102). As you can see, English has impacted different cultures over the years. As English continues to grow over time, English has become a way to communicate with foreigners to gain business. However, it can be a way to have less cultural differences.…
The Identity of America: Czolgosz Inadvertent Gift The concept of identity is an excessively fragile one and one with which all people struggle at some point in their lives. This fragility with regards to age is also prevalent when applied to nations, particularly the United States at the turn of the twentieth century during the time of William McKinley’s presidency. As is evident in Eric Rauchway’s book, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America, this fragility became much more obvious to the people of the United States when he was assassinated by the anarchist immigrant, Leon Czolgosz.…
The Americans and English are forced together but feel separate due to the new life the the Americans have. The separation created social differences between the two countries, and was shown through the enforcement of Americans and Englishmen together. Eventually, Americans started to feel like a different group of people…
This is mirrored back to us through subjects in school that we study or even the programs we watch on TV. Cultures also include different languages. It is not so much the language that differs, but rather the meaning of phrases within different languages. “A whale of a time,” means to have a great time in Ireland, but in the US we would just say “We had a great time.” If someone were to come to the US and us an Irish phrase, we would not understand what the person meant, just simply because of our differing geographies and different cultures that go along with those geographies.…
The reason for this is that we were taught British english in school. There is very little difference between American and British english but that did not stop people from saying they did not understand me. It can be very frustrating when you are thinking what you are saying but someone is telling you it does not make…
Indifferences of Prejudices The article by Zanottini was published by the pacific standard. Basically, this article is about the manner in which people look negatively at other forms of English that are somewhat not prestigious. According to Zanottini the prejudice that is usually demonstrated by people who usually speak correct English is just a reflection of their bias against the groups of people who speak the non-prestigious English. Apart from that, she puts across the idea that the numerous grammatical errors in how such people speak are actually a recipe that is well developed in its own to suite the wide variety of English speakers.…
The great minds of PBS documentary workers made the film Divided States of America and published it on TV for viewers to watch January 16 and 17 in 2017. This documentary covers a drastic period of time in America, from the rise of Obama to the rise of Trump. It gives very detailed information about Obama’s time in office and what went his way, and what didn’t go his way. The events Obama faces in this documentary are breathtaking, frankly I barely even knew of any the events that he had to face and the mountains he had to climb to remain president of our country for eight strong years. I agree with practically everything Obama had put into effect or resolved, especially being the first African American president of the United States.…
I’d bet that once in your lifetime, you went to a store and came across someone having a conversion in another language. Im sure you had a slight regret of not knowing that person's language. Has it ever happened to you? You visit a local market and you hear the sellers chatting away in their native language. You order something in English and interrupt their fun conversation.…
What America means to me. From the time 1 was born up to the present, my life has been sustained through the sotl of America. The bread that 1 eat every day has been made from wheat grown in American soil. The house 1 live in has been butlt from lumber grown in American forests.…
(Purnell, 215). The European American’s dominant language is American English in the United States and accents may vary depending on the location. In the United States, there are different dialects Americans speak; people…
In the article “Do You Speak American?” Robert MacNeil reminds us of one of the many reasons the United States is so linguistically diverse. He gives various examples of how American English has evolved throughout time. The analysis of the American language is meant for people who read the magazine, U.S.A. Today, but it also applies to a secondary audience, which are American English speakers.…
“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts” (Madison, James). Immigration has been around for centuries, from Christopher Columbus coming to the new world and even in the present days. America has changed throughout the years by immigrants from around the world. For example, America has increased in population, new foods have been introduced, and languages have been learned and taught.…
I noticed this two years ago when I moved here with my family. We can define and recognize people from other countries, but still we try to communicate in the best possible way and to learn the meaning of special words when we are talking to them. Inside the United States, we have lots of different communities, such as American, Black, Hispanic, and others. The interesting thing about this is that inside them we have lots of sub-communities which have their own dialects. For example, in American there are differences in speech in the different states, and even inside one state.…
“Uh, um” is how I commonly end up when talking to new people. Often I use a different tone and language while talking to a distinct type of person. My words vary, I may get stumbled up, or even make snarly comments. All of which depends on the type of person I talk to. I talk differently to my friends, through text, to new people, to my father, and to my family.…
Through the conquering of other countries, English assimilated with the original language in the countries that English speakers were conquering, continuing to shape the English language to be what it is today. Additionally, English has become immensely popular, which is especially surprising since the language is so young. This could be due to the fact that Great Britain conquered over half of the world, but it could also be because English has so many ties with different languages. Though English is not considered a romance language, a lot of the main words that we use are derived from Latin just like other languages, including mutation, foliage, and plumbing. With the constant addition of new words and phrases from other countries’ languages, English is always changing and will always change to properly suit the new English speaker that are created each day.…