The history of Enligsh Language. By Sammy Stein

This topic is focused also in The History of English Language, but this time it was written by Sammy Stain. 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 Sammy Stein, tried to emphasize. The purpose of the reading is to illustrate people who are interested about how English has being evolving and how its changes affect us either in good or bad ways. The tone of the reading is not as formal as the other ones were, but it is still being formal since the informal words he uses are to explain how English has been changing.





In this article, Sammy Stein explains how English has being changing not only in a scientific aspect but also in the social one.



The one thing I like the most of this author is that he expresses how much people who were not from England, or the united states became part of the history of this beautiful language, because even though we don’t know how to use the language in a perfect way, it does contains words that derivate from Spanish, or even French.



Sammy Stein puts in plain words not only how we contributed some words to the English language, but also the way that having French people working in the parliament affected in good and bad ways. Another example that even though Sammy did not mention in the article is how Spanglish and Chicano are important, because they may not be official but as he said, nowadays the language is changing, and we can see that if we look for some words in a dictionary that was written 25 years ago and in another one written nowadays. That means that we are evolving, but English is too, which make us competitive and that makes a progress in every aspect of communication.



There’s also another interesting idea Sammy expressed in this article and it was how much technology – for example – has become a major part of the English, because years ago we did not used words such as he mentioned download, hyper drive and even byte. This makes English stand out from other languages since we, speaking in Spanish, don’t have words for those meanings, which demonstrate how English evolves, and maybe Spanish doesn’t.