https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6 What we learnt about the history of english en-us 2018-05-04 16:33:08 UTC 2024-08-10 20:54:08 UTC hello@padlet.com leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258093294 In this first text, we were able to learn a little bit about the evolution of the english language.
The author divides the english language in three periods:
The first one of them, the Old English, found its origin in the Germanic migrations to the british islands, and is quite distant from the english we know nowadays.
Then, the Middle English is a little closer, really influenced by french, but still quite difficult to understand;
Modern English is the english we know nowadays, influenced by changes in pronunciation, the press and a deeper influence of latin and other cultures.
Of course, all the change didn't happen overnight: lots of historical events happened to make that posible, as we'll see with other texts.
One important thing that the text made us notice was that English didn't really start as the Old English we know. What I mean is: there must be a previous dialet that wasn't registered. Actually, we can clearly see many similarities between english and several other worldwide languages, leading us to believe that there has to be a "common ancestral" to them all.]]> 2018-05-04 16:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258093294 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258097498 This was a text that generated many great presentations, and gave us the opportunity of having a closer view on how the english became what it is nowadays.
With it, we learned many different facts about the evolution of the english languages: for example, the german invasions, the Celtic contributions (which, unfortunatelly, are so little), the influences of french and latin and others, but for me the most interesting parts were the ones in which we learnt about the diversity of dialects  there were in Britain and how we can learn where each of them was mostly spoken through the map of England; also, the influence of French and the social division of languages, with french being the language of the royalty, latin being the language of religion and english itself being the language of folk; that's basically how we have, for example, many words with similiar meanings, but one fancier than other (the fancier is usually french).
In a nutshell, for me it was very interesting to see the marks this evolution, this history of english language left in the language and culture of english speaking countries.]]> 2018-05-04 16:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258097498 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258098815 2018-05-04 16:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258098815 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258099680 2018-05-04 16:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258099680 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258100133 2018-05-04 17:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258100133 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258105112 2018-05-04 17:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258105112 leticia_97angelini https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258105878 This was, in my opinion, by far the most interesting text of the unit. It was fun to read about all these elements of pop culture, and it is incredible the capability  of these authors to create entire dictiories to back up their stories - and I believed that it's proven that that's not how far their geniality goes: Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings are two of the most aclamated pop stories of all times.
Even though this isn't the focus of the text, I would also like to bring up author like Shakespeare, that had their book to be so important that the words they invented actually became part of the english vocabulary.]]> 2018-05-04 17:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/leticia_97angelini/7x9s8nf0why6/wish/258105878