English 333 midterm project.

1. Why would you say that?
A timeline of the English language.

2. It expresses both good and evil
• Jeanette: Thelma, if you were
summing up the philosophy of
life what would you say is the
most best thing that you have
learned?
• Thelma: I think love. When you
have real love in your heart for
the people and especially the
children you have worked with
or for anyone I think that
covers it all. If you have really
loved and feel that you are
loved.
• “After venting his spleen about
McDonald, the old man raged
about the Greenshaws and
Weeks for turning state’s
evidence, writing that a
“traitor is the vilest of vile; and
the tongue of man cannot
speak a more insidious
word”…”If I have said anything
in these pages which I should
not have said, or offend any, I
have no apologies to
make”…and with that
comment the old man
seeming disappeared for
history”

3. Writing can be very personal
“I did stick to my solitary research and writing
methods for the most part, but I had to release
very rough drafts of the story when it was not
ready to be seen by others…I had to find a
balance between my preference for solitary
writing and the more public nature of writing a
thesis”

4. Hear Ye, Hear Ye.
An odd spelling of a normal word causes it to stand out. One example is “Ye Olde Shoppe”, seen at Old fashioned fairs
and stores of that theme. Sounds like a cool selling point. What really happened is that we lost about 12 different
letters for the English language. Now Y is the closest approximation to the letter for “Th”. That letter was called
Thorne because the way is was written looked like a Thorn. In reality there was a word “ye” but it meant “you” and
not “the”

5. The poetic perspective.
This picture is a historical reminder of a time when English was evolving. The Battle of Maldon was immortalized in an Anglo
Saxon poem that described a battle with Vikings. This battle is shows a pivotal point in the history on the English Language
where Anglo Saxon meets the Viking language of Futhark. This battle and the subsequent evolution of language happened
in 991 AD. During the battle the tide lowered revealing a crossway that allowed the Vikings to cross the river.
“When they saw that, and keenly espied
That bitter bridge-guardians there they met”

6. Another Culture Clash
Another wartime evolution was during the Norman Conquest; English has not yet travelled far out of the country it was
names for but new advances are coming towards it. Those advances are coming fast with swords (and pens). If you like
BOEF (beef), maybe the words from this particular language appeal to you. During this war English ordered some new
words and phrases à la carte. Hopfully, this gives the moment is history Justice; considering this is where english absorbed
the word, along with Jury, Evidence, and Judge.

7. A different type of war; religious resistance.
When Christianity makes it grand entrance in about 1611 it brings back Latin. Which hasn’t really been used sense the
Anglo-Saxon language took over. Now it took teams of scribes to rewrite everything in English; from these translations we
get phrases like “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “labour of love”. Latin has not been used much sense the Anglo-Saxon
vernacular took over; but at this point it comes home too roost.

8. The Science of Wording
With Latin making its big comeback scientists used it for a while to write down their discoveries. Right after they has heard
Issac Newton’s story of the Pomum falling from the arbor to the Terra for the millionth time. However, science was
discovering new things and had to name them which is why the roots of these words have survived into the present. Which
is why we have arborday and terraforming; as well as homonyms and heteronyms. Words like acid and pendulum had to be
invented by scientists. Scientists also tended to name their discoveries using Greek words; possibly because the Greek
culture named many things scientists where just getting around to; like constellation's. Or maybe Greek Mythology is just an
exciting read for whoever created the term aphrodisiac; as in Aphrodite, the Goddess of sensuality, relationships and beauty

9. The Next Big Thing! An
almost non-violent
evolution
The next big leap for the English
Language comes with the birth of
Shakespeare. It theorized that about
three thousand words were invented by
him. If you’ve ever heard someone called
lily livered that’s Shakespeare interacting
with our daily lives and he has been
sense his first published work in 1593.
The photo above is of his play Macbeth in
which he penned what some consider
one of the most evil female villains of all
time. So next time you pet your puppydog
or see an alligator on television
remember that the words of one person
have infested our culture so heavily that
people do not even know his words are
anything but normal. While some
historians debate that Shakespeare could
have overheared those words it is said
that “dictionary writers like looking them
up in Shakespeare because there is more
cross dressing and taking peoples eyes
out”

10. Education and Dialect
Why We Speak English
Eventually that English language made its way to
the school houses of the American colonies.
Along with Shakespeare and Science and their
groovy words. This Texas schoolhouse is pretty
similar to most of its time. Even though in Texas
people are stereotyped with a specific way of
speak; the entire American population has a
special way of sayin’ thang’s. See, between
winning Independence and World War One
America kept itself pretty isolated; that included
our language. While the English in Europe
continued to evolve American English pretty
much stayed the same. The Brits went on to put
their children in nappies while American children
used diapers. Despite having an array of different
dialects the English language has managed to
infest most of the known world. Which is not too
surprising given that ninety percent of the world
was at some point invaded by Britain.

11. Where Do I Say What?
In Texas we still mainly speak the English that the European settlers brought over. The way we say those words is divided
though. Dialect is determined depending on where and when an area was settled and if it’s sense been urbanized. The
more a Texan drives south the closer they will be to a Spanish influenced dialect. The farther North one travels in Texas the
more the dialect is determined by Germanic settlers and their descendants. However, the closer to an urban area (a big city)
the less likely people are to have accents at all due to the constant influence of other English speakers. Despite all this many
Texans stubbornly hold on to their accent with pride and gusto; as though it is a part of ones identity as a Texan.

12. Yes,Texansevenmanagedtoholdonto theirunique accentdespite the adventof radiowhich
introducedthemtoa more commonway of speaking.ProbablybecausetheyimminentlycreatedTexas
themedradioTexasthemedradiostations.Furtherprojectingthe largerthanlife image of whata
Texansis.“Here was a man whodidnot live onEarth withthe restof us…howandI supposedtoask him
a question?”thisquote embodieswhataTexanpersonalookslike toanoutsider.Thisunreal image is
assistedbya unique accentthatwarns anyone thathearsit that the speakerislargerthanlife.

13. The English language grew,
stretched and absorbed for
thousands of years before finally
making a place in Texas. Imagine
this Lovecraftian image described
only with words. The English
language stopped being a simple
necessity a long time ago and
began to be an art form. This
picture is an album cover for a
band whose lyricist uses his
Masters Degree in English to write
their songs. Not to mention the
English teachers that formed our
very culture, changed our very
reality. How much of modern
fiction comes from Tolkien? How
much of our lives were changes
when Texas English teacher turned
politician decided to integrate the
schools, (LBJ)? These men knew
the power of English and used it to
shape their world into a more
beautiful place.

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