The History of the English Language by Sammy Stein.

Topic: The History of the English Language.

Audience: This article is dedicated for young people and the persons that are learning the English language or interested on how the English was changing over time.

Purpose: Give knowledge of the history of English and how it was changing over time and where it changed.

Tone: Casual.

Nowadays we can ask anybody what language does he speak? The most commonly answer would be English. In this article the author tries to explain why this language is not as pure as we think and how it was spread. The English is the most common speaking language in the world, but how did it start? It started with a Britain tribe and then the language commenced to change when the Vikings arrived and conquered England, the change was more notorious. Later more countries arrived to invade England and the language continued changing, as more people came to rule the country, they started to put new words to the old English and it kept changing. The article tells us that the English is changing over time, not only because of our fault, but also in the past many rulers tried to change the most part of it. Indeed the English is not as pure as we though, in fact it has more words that have being changed than in other languages.

Even thought that the English came from the same part doesn’t mean that it would be the same in everywhere, a clear example is in America and in England, they are different places and the same language, but they have different pronunciation in certain words.

I agree with this article and this not only happens in the English language, but also in many others, because the languages have changed over time in many places. And I think the most important thing is trying to not to change that much the language, because nowadays is difficult to learn a new language, and it would be more difficult if the language is changing every time.

In my opinion the languages changed different, because of how they were conquered, the difference is that if their rulers had another way of thinking, they would teach different words. For example it is not the same a king from Spain, that another one who came from the Vikings. And I think that the author is trying to tell us that the language shouldn’t change because it would be more difficult to understand with each others.