Hiberno-English

old words with new meanings or completely new words with new meanings. Because of its unstructured nature, many linguists believe that slang is “lazy” English. Walt Whitman, the author of Slang in America, uses a variety of rhetoric devices to prove to the world, especially Americans, that slang is a useful and a necessary development to the English language by using an informative tone. When beginning his writing, Whitman uses a metaphor…

Until the 17th century, the English had never laid much claim to the lands of the New World. With the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, England began the construction of a fairly large and relatively diverse conglomeration of colonies. Eventually, developing unity in these colonies became essential to maintaining the thriving English empire in the New World. This solidarity between different colonies was derived from a variety of unique sources. Many individual ideas, legislative acts, and…

The idea that Chicano English has a low social status is not novel to speakers of the dialect. Ms. Guerra, a San Francisco native who speaks Chicano English, says she feels like people take her less seriously, especially because her “vocabulary and grammar is not good to begin with.” Note that Guerra may think that her vocabulary and grammar is “not good” because she compares to to the standard and what she was taught in school, and does not validate the correctness of her own dialect. Rather…

States now and they are growing rapidly but why is it that people are trying to stop this. There are many reasons, from everyone should all assimilate to fit in, to English is the national language of this country. Another reason why this should be is because immigrant children or children from immigrant families that do not speak English. Some say that there are already schools and things of that nature helping but is it enough? Not just the children need the help but also the parents of the…

The film “Century of Genocide in the Americas: the Residential School Experience” is a testimony to the atrocity and cruelty the white people incurred upon the Indians. The film shortly portrays the bizarre picture of the reservation where each and every day the Indians were killed, maimed, raped and denied human rights in varied forms. The film cites the second article of the 1948 Genocide Convention “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part…

Scenario 1# Entering/Updating Leads Example 1: A business in Japan replies to a LinkedIn InMail, they say that they are actively searching for English learning solutions. They have 500 people interested and 50 of those people have been identified as high potential employees. The company also wants to be able to assess the skill level that their employees have. This is an example of a lead that should be entered into Sales force and converted to an opportunity. Example 2: Say a day later the…

When Robert Bolt titled A Man for All Seasons he did not draw from the story’s main men as inspiration. The play follows English nobility during a tumultuous time in British history. King Henry VIII wishes to divorce his wife, the Spanish princess Catherine, his brother’s widow, as the pair find themselves unable to produce a male heir. When Sir Thomas More rises to the title of Lord Chancellor of England, the King approaches him, hoping to convince More to support the divorce. More did not…

social media hasn’t changed the way we communicate between people. We can share our thoughts or make plans to hangout. I believe it has changed us and has shifted us away from communicating face to face and has affected the way we speak and write English. Social media allows us to communicate with people around the globe. Although it has changed the way we communicate it has allowed us to keep friendships alive over great distances around the world, but also increased the pressure placed on a…

keeps speaking Black English. In the end she wants to make something out of herself. In “From Outside, In”. Mellix…

only small amounts of English upon arrival. The argument that they will never try to learn it has worked its way into politics. Even some so called moderate voices on the subject believe that immigrants should be required to learn English to live in America. “They can come here, but they should learn to speak our language” (Sen. Lindsey Graham). This undermines the hard work that many immigrants do put into learning our language. Alma goes to the community center to learn English. Apparently,…