Storylab: Week 12, TEDed Language

How Did English Evolve

  • begins by giving to scenarios
  • introduces two different tribes
  • describes a war
  • describes old english
  • the island gets split in half
  • describes the two different languages
  • the two languages combined
  • war breaks out again
  • french came into the picture and latin
  • english began to adapt with these other languages
  • different words with the same meaning have different connotations
  • 1000 new words are added every year
  • we have over 170,000 words in the dictionary
  • new inventions come with new words
  • science calls for new words
  • english borrows words from other languages
  • we borrow many ideas from other countries
  • new concepts have to be named for science
  • lots of words are blended together from two other words
  • new words arent always new sometimes they just have a new meaning
  • sometimes words are used in the wrong way
  • dictionaries only document current words

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