Saturday, September 19, 2015

Good or Bad english?

The author of the text Bill Bryson states that thought the entire globe their are many of those who speak english and many of those who are willing to speak it. However, this has occurred due to the American and British dominance back in history as they had influenced many cultures and communities by the use of the english language. Although the author of the text states that there had been some shifts that had occurred in the language, for example when the germaneness applied the rules in latin onto english back in the 17th century. The author then metaphorically describes its as “asking people to play baseball using the rules of football” (p.197, line 2-3).Due to the shifts that had occurred in the language stuff that were said in the eighteenth century wont sound right to you in this era. In the eighteenth century it was correct to say “you was” but due to the shifts that had occurred in the language it would sound wrong to you because of the languages standard. When the author refers to “broken english” he refers to the simple errors that made in grammar which are easily made. This would mainly happen if english want you're mother tongue. 


talking about myself I often make lapses in grammatical english since it isn't my mother tongue and this mainly happens when I speak and write. This is because arabic isn't quite similar to english as in arabic there is a different sentence structure different set of rules to follow while writing or reading arabic. Even though they aren't that similar i was still able to get the hang of speaking and writing english with a few grammatical mistakes once in a while. Although this had never stopped me from achieving or getting to my main point or argument.

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