Blog 3
History of the English Language
Source: Video
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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.
