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