The History of the English Language by Sammy Stein

Analysis and reflection done by Hugo Churches

English, a language changed by many, used by many. Sammy Stein, creator of this article, makes me think that English wasn’t a pure language. Yes, English had rough turns and transformation in the lapse of its own evolution. I always thought that English was a unique language but knowing that as customs in people or places change its language might as well go affected. In the article Sammy, informs me that English got changed because in the island nation of England got invaded by different civilizations, it even got changed by Romans and Vikings which added new words, and it made a major change to the English language. The Roman’s also contributed in changing English; they managed to introduce to English new words, derived from their native language, Latin. Speaking of Latin, the article made reference on how people where distinguished as a poor by knowing in which language they talked, they differentiate it from rich and from the poor which makes me think about they were categorized by only speaking one language as uneducated. To get things arranged, Sammy’s purpose was to tell us that English was transformed, mish mash and multiple times derived from other languages into a single language. According to Sammy’s statement, English is also a common used language around the world, I should say that I totally agree, it’s a true situation that can be witnessed by anyone, for example, products that come from china usually come with an English written instruction booklet. I must say that I am impressed in the attempts that certain groups commit in order to create a language such as Esperanto, a language used in the music of Era-Ameno (just for some example). Also I would say that the creation of words is normal in such used language because in this time of the year and also those to come, I have witnessed how people create words, words which are assigned to objects that are created by people, like the Pong machine, let’s say. It is true that language is evolving according how time goes. English as a language is a very useful tool to integrate to life, business, social vibes, and successfulness but regardless to say it is still a difficult one to learn, fact that Sammy forgot to mention. In conclusion, how did English managed to conserve such words? To me is basically the use of the words that are added to the vocabulary of an individual, if this individual speaks using newfound or created words should have a nice time bragging about its invention or enjoy explaining the meaning of the new word.