Friday, October 31, 2008

The english video

I thought they English video was very interesting. I loved hearing what our language sounded like many years ago. It’s so fascinating as to how we used to say our vowels and how we do now. I’m confused about some of it though. Like how did we change it? And why don’t we have a British accent? I kind of like how they talk because it sounds so eloquent and now it sounds almost trashy. Also, I love the way people used to write. How it looks now to how it did then is a huge difference. I would love to have handwriting like people did back in the day. I was also very interested in how Chaucer saved English. So was it because he was just very popular and so people read his book and it just spread? I thought it was cool hearing the kind of English that Beowulf was written in. It was just overall really cool and I’m glad we got to watch it.

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