Blog 3


 

History of the English Language

Source:  Video

http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8949&xtid=2820

If you have trouble finding the video, you use “Google Chrome” browser.

 

The Film is about how English changes since many years ago estimated “more than a millennium”. The story of Salomon how he made decision for two women who were fighting for one baby, shows how language English changes from Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English through translations. In the future time the language English will strangely look  to our Model English as Old English is today to us.

The Story: Solomon Judges a Difficult Case

“16. One day two prostitutes came and presented themselves before King Solomon. 17One of them said, “Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a baby boy at home while she was the  ...Two days after my child……”

Don’t give to either of us, go ahead and cut it into two.

 

English and Borrowed Words

French: present, argue, claim, judge, decision, respect

Latin: prostitutes,

 English words: Sword, king, 

Old English words: day, feed, night, bed, son, women, son, child, mother

Unchanged words: and, it, I, he, that,

I picked this video because it is related to English. It shows how a language changes through translations and customer.

 

 

Blog 2

 

Interracial Marriage Is an Indicator of Racial Assimilation in America

                                                        Source

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=OVIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&limiter=&u=mcc_glendale&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=OVIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010017213

 

Lee, Sharon M., and Barry Edmonston. "Interracial Marriage Is an Indicator of Racial Assimilation in America." Interracial Relationships. Ed. David M. Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. At Issue. Rpt. from "New Marriages, New Families: U.S. Racial and Hispanic Intermarriage." Population Bulletin 60 (2005): 2. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.

The article is about the increasing of intermarriage in America. It illustrates how this intermarriage is increasing here. Some of many major factor of this intermarriage include “immigration, a narrowing of the socioeconomic gap between ethnic groups.” The purpose of this intermarriage is considered as “a key indicator of two important social trends. First, as more people marry across racial groups, the social distance between racial groups is reduced. Second, racial intermarriage changes racial boundaries as family and kin, the most intimate of social groups, become increasingly interracial.”(Lee, and Barry).

Why did I pick the article? How is it related to language? I picked this article because any time people’s behaviors or actions are mentioned whether in writing or speaking, those actions are part of them, and they become they languages. The article speaks about “Intermarriage” so then a question rises whether the subject is related to language? It is indeed related to language for example English language is mixed with many other words from other languages in the world.  

Do I agree or disagree with the article? Why? I took the article because it gives an understanding picture of how the purpose of intermarriage might sound good and bring many profits in the society and change a lot, but the root of the language will totally have a different form from the original one.

Did it make you want to learn more about the topic? Why or why not? I feel lead to write my project relatively the mix of English with other languages.

How does your topic affect the world? It does affect the world very much. Consider this, The United States is a big country that brings in many people from all around the world. Many children of immigrants adapt American and the language in a way that they do not want to speak the native language to able to communicate with their relatives and friends of their former countries.  

 

                                Blog 1


                                               H.G. Wells: Time Traveler


http://search.alexanderstreet.com.libproxy.gc.maricopa.edu/literature-language/view/work/1796107

I found the video entitled: “H.G. Wells: Time Traveler” is bibliography of H.G. Wells reported by Jack Perkins.

 

 

 

 

 

The reason I took this video is because I was impressed by the title "Time Traveler" I wondered how the time can travel. The next question is how the chosen work is related to the language. A language starts to be spoken in a community and it keeps growing not only to be spoken by many communities and countries, but also it changes in grammar and syntax according to the time. A language travels also though it is not a visual fact, but it reaches far away for the place it started. H.G. Wells was considered as the prophet whose ideas portrays the things a head to come. In his famous work “The time Machine” He identified himself living in future not in his days. Due to his writing works, he was classified as “novelist, historian, futurist, social critic, and pioneering champion of sexual freedom, and women’s rights and he forecast the atom bomb, and both world wars, and in the utopian evolutionary promise of man”(Perkins). The way the title is written, it could behoove any one to wonder how the time can run without legs, it is like the same thing to a language. It is very difficult to know someone’s thoughts without those ideas being expressed or painted.  A language affect the world because a language gets out thoughts of a human, and those ideas expressed will have a strong impact on lives of readers and hears, and it is by that empowerment of  the thoughts inquired will save or destroy the human kind and earth. The thoughts and actions are the language of the person.   

Finally, any language starts to be spoken by a family and it grows according the increasing of people and the language expands in many other culture as the people move looking where they can satisfy their needs. Likewise a language is changed and improved according to the time.  

 

 

Hi classmates!

My name is Niragira Alex. I am originally from Burundi. It is a small country with a shape like a heart of a human being. The country is located in East Africa between Rwanda, Congo and Tanzania. Due to a civil war that broke out in Burundi, I left behind everything we had and fled to Congo. After a couple of years in Congo a civil war broke out and once again I left behind everything and ended up in the refugee camp an isolated and barren area in Tanzania in Africa. I lived in the refugee camp for 13 years before I came to the United States with my wife and three children. My wife and children are now citizens after five years we have been in America. I am interested in learning languages because it is a tool of interaction with communities. I can speak French, Swahili, Kirundi and English. The reason I am taking English 213, It is a part of my major (Linguistics). Finally, I hope this semester will be exciting one.