One of the most resounding message from this linguistics course is that language is never constant. The English language derived from many languages such as Germanic, Latin, French and Greek. Even nowadays the language is still changing. I was born in the 1994. Amazon was founded in this year, Warped Tour was first conceived, the pop sensation Justin Bieber was born and Forrest Gump was released. Additionally, there are sixty-seven entries of words first recorded in 1994. For this pattern I chose fifty words. One major pattern that I noticed in 1994 is that there were a lot of computic words and words related to technology. I believe one of the reasons that this happened was because in 1994 JPEG , images on the web, started appearing. Another category that I noticed is music related words, slang words, cosmetic, drugs and proprietary names.
The words that were related to technology were dot.com,dot.org, e-cash,e-zine, Infobahn, mouse over,MP3,screenager, spammer, spamming, telnetable, text message, webmeister, webmistress,webzine, 1471, cybershopper, cybershot, cyber cafe artilect,flexecutive. In total, twenty-one words were related to technology out of the sixty seven, which accounts for thirty-one percent of words first recorded in 1994. Some of these words are in pairs, such as webmeister which means a master of the web, and webmistress which is the female form of webmeister. Webmeister also is a combination of two words, web and master. The spelling changed a little bit for the male word but in general there was no morphological change so the word kept its transparency. The same can be said with webmistress. Dotcom and dot-org are similar because their definitions both refer to an internet address. Dotcom refers to a commerc...
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Overall, the words that had to do with technology were abundant in the sample word of fifty. The major pattern that I noticed was that the words having to do with technology were all created very simply. Most of the words were transparent and easy to guess their meaning. They used a lot of clipping and blending. Also there were similar roots from which other words are now being created from, such as cyber. It is amazing to know how fast and how much words change. Text messaging is extremely common among college students but the word was first listed around the time of first year students birth. I believe that what keeps the language alive is its growth and new innovations. It is only appropriate that words change as our world does. I however, greatly appreciate how many of the words were created in simple manners in the year 1994.
From the beginning of the novel, it was inevitable that Big brother would eventually win, and Winston would be caught by the thought police. He could never have an immediate affect on the Party. His long and pointless struggle achieved no result in the end, and finally was brainwashed and lost any freedom of thought he once had.
1984, by George Orwell, depicts the psychological progression of Winston Smith, a rebellious citizen among an oppressive government. In such a government, each ministry deals with the polar opposite of its namesake, stupidity is as necessary as intellect, and Big Brother is always watching. Conformity is not the ultimate goal of the Party. It is a side effect of Two Minutes Hate, relentless torture, and a lack of meaningful relationships aside from the love of Big Brother. Orwell so vividly illustrates the crushing brutality of the Party in order to warn the reader that an absolute government with the power to drive a citizen to his or her breaking point will inevitably destroy the core of human drive and independence. Those with the power to exploit personal fears and control levels of commitment through torture can crush anyone, for “in the face of pain, there are no heroes” (Orwell 213).
Throughout the book 1984, by George Orwell, society was constantly being monitored and limited in their freedom. Orwell wrote this book to depict the most absolute and powerful totalitarian government. It showed people of his time how this could all be a possibility in the near future and the risks of accepting this form of control. He was able to create an extreme portrayal of the extent rulers would go to, to obtain total power over everyone. In the book, the government had set up a world of lies and deception, which people had to believe or else their life was at risk. However, there was Winston Smith, a unique man in this newly organized world that suppressed individualism. As the book progressed, the structure and plot of the story unveiled Orwells worry with the challenges Winston faced as he struggled to find the truth about the society he lived in.
The constant changing of technology and social norms makes difficult for different generations to understand one another and fully relate to each other. Diction and slang change as years pass and what is socially acceptable may have been prohibited in the previous generations.
Over the last decade, the English language has taken a great leap forward. And the main reason for that,is modern technology.
how the English language has changed in the many years from then until now. The
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Language has a personality and a mood, created by the behavior of the speakers and their cultural identity. Moreover, this includes the tools speaker use to communicate through i.e. sign language. Languages can be described by human emotions and feelings; therefore, language is personified and dynamic. Historical events have lead to changes in languages in caused flexibility and dynamicity of language. Globalization and colonization also had an effect in word borrowing, and many languages have been altered due to this. Languages are also interpre...
Media and technology have an ever increasing role in how we as humans communicate with one another as well as help impact our culture. The printed word, once able to be mass produced helped usher in an era where where people could seek the education and reading skills they desired, brought print and knowledge to the masses. Now with the more common use of digital communication and media outlets, our options for information and communication are almost entirely unimpeded. Technology allows us to live through multiple Renaissance type periods filled with ever growing pools of information from which to share, and culture changing happenings coming from every corner of our connected world.
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Have you ever wondered where the names of the different items you use daily came from? Or listened to people talk and find a particular word interesting or odd and wonder why it has become part of our English language? The English language that we speak today has developed as a result of many different influences and changes over thousands of years. The resulting changes to the English language can be split into three time periods that include, Old English or Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Modern English which is commonly used today