The History of the English Language by Lucy Rucker

How Did the English Language Begin?




The topic of the reading I read is The history of the English language. The audience might be all those people who want to research about the language, maybe some students who have any homework. Teachers who want to talk about how English has changed in years, and maybe some other writers to criticize what, in this case Lucky Rucker, tried to emphasize. The purpose of the reading is to update readers about how English has being changing, and the way native speakers do not say word since they have no meaning at all; we can also tell that the purpose is knowing how words are differently used in the South, North, East and West of the countries. The tone of this reading is considered to be formal since we can see how the author expresses in a proper way her idea of what English’s changes have been



We can notice in this reading how English has being changing with years, not only in the way people use the word, but in the significance they give to words, for example, it is really interesting how even in the same countries, people –being all native speakers – can develop different ways to use words. It is not the function of the word only, but the way we can use the word, maybe in Boston we can use one specifically word as an adjective, and even when in Texas we do know the word with the same meaning, we ,my use it as a noun or as an adverb.



It is also interesting how the English has evolved, not only because of the Middle English’s changing of grammatical expressions, but also for they deleting words had no use at all. It is interesting how there is no specific word for an action or a term, just as we saw in our first classes of English A2, but even though they have no word for that, they are removing words that could’ve been practical for those meanings.



I, as an student, think that Modern English, is actually what we like the most, because we do understand its meaning, even though sometimes is frustrating when you’re trying to explain something and you cannot do it. But that’s what learning is all about. So English has been changing, just the way we have, so there’s no reason to concern about EVOLUTION, because we will change, and we need languages able to explain what we want to express.