The History of the English Language by Risa

This article has clear data, and facts about what happened with English trough time and most important, examples of it. The creation, growth and change of the English language are all showed in this article with an ordered structure. Also the variation of important words that were used before and that are used now a days, and how they changed trough time and evolution of the language.

“Only dead languages do not change; English has changed, but the original core is still there. The core has acted as an anchor for the language across time and space. You still sing today; we sang in the past as we have sung before.” This shows perfectly the author opinion, but it’s based on facts and not in thoughts of the author. This can help a little bit more to understand what happened to the English language than the first article.

This article goes thought a complete history of the English language in a short, but complete way. It shows how words changed and where used thought the time. The variety also changed, but some words disappeared naturally to give balance to the language.

The author included some specific phrases that cleared a lot of doubts to me: “More difficult to our understanding of the language of the past than the loss of "thou" is the fact that meanings shift, too. When we say "we should go," we mean we have a choice; in Old English "should" meant there was no choice, "we must go." This helped me understand that not only words changed, the meanings of them did too with the past of time. It might not have a lot of importance, but it’s good to know where are you saying and the correct form of doing it.

I think that she focused a lot on this article to be the most complete and shorter as possible, so I don’t have any complain about the structure. The examples that are included of how words changed are also a plus in this article, because it helps to understand better the story of the change of language.

In conclusion, I totally agree with the author to say all the truth about the English language. She’s not biased about the difficulty of it and she includes specific facts about the changes that occurred, so I must say that I couldn’t find any flaws in her article.