The Late Modern English by https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj Hillary Anastácio. en-us 2018-06-06 00:06:18 UTC 2026-01-27 13:35:08 UTC hello@padlet.com The Industrial and Scientific Revolution hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989375  - New words for things and ideas that had not previously existed; 
- Half of the influential scientific and technological output between 1750 and 1900 was written in English]]> 2018-06-07 00:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989375 Colonialism and the British Empire hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989451 - The language of the colonizers;
- World trade. ]]> 2018-06-07 00:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989451 The New World hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989485 - English settlers went there to stay (USA), not just to search for riches or trading opportunities, this helped the development and survival of the English Language in North America;
- Immigrants.]]> 2018-06-07 00:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989485 American Dialect hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989498 - American English is closer to the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is;
- "The new circumstances under which we are placed call for new words, new phrases, and for the transfer of old words to new objects. An American dialect will therefore be formed". Thomas Jefferson (one of the Founding Fathers and later on President of USA);
- Spanish influence.]]> 2018-06-07 00:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989498 Black English hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989513 - Due to the deliberate practice of shipping slaves of different language backgrounds together (in an attempt to avoid plots and rebellions), the captives developed their own English-based pidgin language (a reduced language that results from extended contact between people with no language in common), which they used to communicate with the largely English-speaking sailors and landowners, and also between themselves;

]]> 2018-06-07 00:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989513 Britain's Other Colonies hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989531
]]> 2018-06-07 00:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989531 Language Reform hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989556 - American proclivity for reform and simplification of the language;
- Taking ownership of the language and developing what would become known as American Standard English was seen as a matter of honor for the newly independent nation;

]]> 2018-06-07 00:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989556 Literary Developments hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989563 - Jane Austen;
- Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells;
- Lewis Carroll experiment with invented words;
- "Ulysses".]]> 2018-06-07 00:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989563 20th Century hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989601 - The USA overtook the UK as the world’s fastest growing economy;
-  World wars, technological transformation, and globalization, and each has provided a source of new additions to the lexicon;
- Dominance of the USA in the development of computer technology makes English the computar language;

]]> 2018-06-07 00:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989601 Present Day hillaryanastacio https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989609 - English is going though a new linguistic peak in terms of word acquisition;
- Use of existing words as a different part of speech, especially the “verbification” of nouns;
- Compound or portmanteau words are an increasingly common source of new vocabulary;
- Meanings of words continue to change;
- Word trends that appear to be custom-designed to be short-lived and epehemera.]]> 2018-06-07 00:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hillaryanastacio/ik55upun2jvj/wish/265989609