Texting is something that people use everyday. People have also been arguing about it. The debates have mostly been about language. Three of the main discussions are: Texting is ruining our language, english is going to end up as abbreviations because of it, and it wastes time. A british writer, John Humphrys thinks texting leads to bad habits. On the other hand John McWhorter, an American linguist and David Crystal, a British linguist, disagree and think that language it just in evolution.…
“Politics and the English Language” Analysis In his essay, “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell states his critical opinions on the deviation of English, especially when it is deceitfully used in politics. Orwell believes that English is deteriorating alongside our “decadent” human civilization. He is quick to point out that one can’t simply blame it upon an individual writer who spread terrible prose, but in fact this occurrence has certain political and economic causes that have…
regulation or official status (Mastin, 2011) It became the third language spoken within those areas and compared to the Norman-French or Latin languages, English became a creole and was only spoken by undedicated peasants. Due to Norman invasion of England, the influence of Norman-French resulted in a linguistic division. Common people or peasants had spoken English while the Aristocrats had adopted the Norman-French and made it their official language. Soon…
Stamp Act (Document 2). This burden was solely developed with the “purpose of levying money” on the colonists (Document 2). Therefore, due to the unjust circumstances revolving around this act, the colonists were justified in breaking away from England and waging war, because of its excessive, unwarranted, and misrepresentation of laws. Additionally, as presented in Document 3, on the event of the Boston Massacre, the laws enforced by the British government essentially caused the event…
Grounded by Language In Mother Tongue, Amy Tan begins her short story by giving the audience prior knowledge that Tan is not a scholar of English and she is not able to give much more than her past knowledge on the English language. She then proceeds to give the readers an idea of how much she is fascinated by language itself and gives it a grading scale from complex english to simple English. Tan presents her short story by giving the readers a recent experience that made her rethink the…
Unit 1- Native Voices- “AH ZEBENYA!” The Native Voices unit was all about nature and how nature doesn’t depend on us and in fact nature can run us over and not be effected at all. In this unit we learned that although we would like to think that nature would have mercy on us but in reality nature stops for nothing. The natives truly understand that about nature so they immerse themselves into nature in order to further understand the dangers so they can avoid them. As we saw with the story of…
History has a tendency of repeating itself. Norms and laws may change, but viewpoints tend to fluctuate between being optimistic and pessimistic. This can be traced throughout humanity, with some decades being notably prosperous and optimistic and others being much more difficult and pessimistic. However, there are two periods in humanity that can be compared to on many different aspects and topics, with one of those topics focusing on human nature and epistemology. More specifically, whether…
The Last Fight Beowulf is written in Old English from a Christian monk during the fifth century reflecting the Germanic tribes and a medieval past. Beowulf is about a Germanic leader, who will fight for his people no matter what. He is known for his great strength, courage, and generosity. Beowulf is also known for his many victories that he has won while fighting in battle and his unbearable strength to where he has to fight with specific swords to uphold his strength. Beowulf took part in…
Today, 89 percent of magazines sold in Canada are foreign, most of which are American. ( From Class Material). Just imagine this statement, it seems Canadian people depend on foreign entertainment. Globalization played a major role to take in this case. What I believe is that head of the country always try to save the country with any cost. But in this case is little different, Canada and America are neighbor country. What I feel is that America always see Canada is one of their States. I could…
1 Imagine that you are responsible for admitting students to an English language school. Design a simple interview based on 20 personal questions for the student about his job, family, school or country. Begin with simple grammar and vocabulary and develop more complexity by the conclusion. This is to follow the school´s placement test to confirm its results. 1. What is your name and how old are you? 2. What country do you come from? 3. How long have you been in this country? 4. Did you come to…