The Glorious Messiness of Engl

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The Glorious Messiness of English

• The reason why English has become a global language
  • Answer:Its massive stealing from other languages.
  • My Understanding:The English language is just like a sponge,which absorbs much valuable water from other languages.
  • New Words
    • massive adj.大量的；大规模的
    • glorious adj.光荣的；令人愉快的
    • messiness n.杂乱状况
    • corrupt vt.腐蚀；讹用
• The History of English
  • The Ancient English
    • Old English
      • Words
        • identity:I,me,you
        • possession:mine,yours
        • the body:eye,nose,mouth
        • size:tall,short
        • necessities:food,water
    • Indo-European parent language
      • Time:3500 to 2000 B.C.
      • Words
        • snow
        • bee
        • wolf
    • The Anglo-Saxons English
      • Time:5th century
      • Words(from their farming vocabulary)
        • sheep,ox
        • earth,wood,field
        • work,laughter
    • Christianity
      • Words(it enriched the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary with some 400 to 500 words from Greek and Latin.)
        • angel
        • disciple n.信徒，门徒
        • martyr n.殉难者，烈士
    • Vikings
      • Words
        • Brought English many words that begin with sk.
          • sky
          • skirt
        • Old Norse and English both survived.
          • rear a child-raise a child
          • wish-want
          • craft-skill
          • hide-skin
  • The Middle English
    • • Beginning Time:1066
      • Background
        • When the Normans conquered England,the country then had three languages:French for the nobles,Latin for the churches and English for the common people.
        • Over three centuries English gradually swallowed French.
      • Words
        • royal
        • sovereign adj.至高无上的；拥有主权的
  • The Modern English
    • Beginning Time:The end of 15th century
    • Backgrounds
      • Around 1476 William Caxton set up a printing press in England and started a communications revolution.
      • Translations of Greek,Roman classics and Latin words were poured onto the printed page.
      • Settlers landed in North American and established the United States.
    • Words
      • From Latin
        • capsule n.密闭小容器；胶囊；航天舱
        • habitual adj.惯常的
      • From Greek
        • catastrophe n.大灾难
        • thermometer n.温度计
      • New inventions whose names come from Latin and Greek.
        • video
        • television
        • cyberspace n.网络空间，虚拟空间
• The ending
  • Meaningful Text
    • That tolerance for change also represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom.
    • The English language is not the special preserve of gammarians,language police,teachers,writersro the intellectual elite.English is,and always has been the tongue of the common man.
  • My Understanding
    • The history of English is quite steep,which sufferd from wars started by other nations.But because of the open geographical environment,the English is equipped with more tolerance than other language,which made it swallowed many vocabularies from other languages to enrich itself.
    • Because of its tolerance,English can absorb nutrition from other nations,and that makes other nations much easier to accept English.Therefore,as time goes by,English becomes a global language.
  • Words
    • respecter n.对...表示尊敬的人
    • liberty n.自由
    • strike out 创造，开创
    • nourish vt.滋养，培育
    • shoot n.嫩芽，新枝
    • grammarian n,语法学家
    • elite n.出类拔萃的人，精英