four ways to look at…
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Four ways to look at…
The English
language
I get it! That’s why we read
those four essays!
1. How did English come to England?
English
The F
irst
1000
Ye
ars
I always wondered why the English
don’t speak Norwegian…
They don’t?
2. What do we know about how language started in the first place?
English
The
Dawn of
Language
Me Neanderthal…me speak…grunting?
Rrrr…rrrr…Me Cro-Magnon.
Fancy larynx. Jealous much?
3. How are words made?W
here
Wor
ds
Com
e
From
I know! Words are adopted, created by error, just made up, changed by doing nothing, by adding
or subtracting…
How does she KNOW
that???
4. English is one language, so how can it be so different from place to place?
Varieties of
English
Ay matey…I speak
‘Stralian…
Dude…no you don’t.
Look what I know about English now!
Where will we go from here?
Our first piece of literary text will be Beowulf, an epic poem originally written in Old English.
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