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a world of words
pamela fox
I¶ve always had a thing for words ±In high school, I made the people carpooling with me bring in words to discussduring each morning ride, and in uni, I plastered ³word of the day´ posters all over campus. Now, I want to sharemy favorite part about words: their deep origins and vast connections.
 
evolution
First, some starter knowledge. Just like animals, languages evolve over time and branch into new languages.Linguists classify these languages into families, and then identify a root or proto language for each family. Thereare 94 language families in the world, and over 6900 currently spoken languages.
 
families
Our English language comes from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family, the most spoken family inthe world. A language is like a distinct species, but instead of the ability to interbreed, you have the ability to understandeveryone else speaking that same language. Now -you guys might find it harder to understand me than native Aussies. That¶s cuz languages are divided into things called dialects.
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Guitarplayerstudio

I enjoyed all of the aspects and abstracts our concepts, of which I am able to discern and all I am capable of imbibing into my brain for analysiss. ONLY one stuck out at me was when married and was judged for being with Jeus yet no one offered help but she did a random act of compassion. It is each to sit back and judg, criticise and manipulate, and know be cause of what we do in those fleeting momens to do those this that others can not do now but wile benefits feel someone must do what you do. The amoeba was a spretch for me but I am good with weird science. thank you so much for your sharing, I love this kind of really wonderfully freeness in sprit to communicate what needs to be communicate/ Namaste, much mettt and love, Much metta

reply10 / 13 / 2009
Sana :)

Its very interesting...and the way you have connected every single thing is remarkable... As a student of Linguistics, I really enjoyed reading it and could better understand it too... thnx!

reply10 / 12 / 2009
duponthumanite

LOVE your speakers' notes. And it's interesting to read about the Australian and American dialects of English and the accents too. The maps are gripping, and so are the definitions for 'beefsteak' and 'ourangatan'. I will always remember about the wild man in the woods. 'Orange' and 'mirror' were good too. I had never really thought about the origins of the word 'orange': it had seemed such a very odd word in the context of the English language. The 'doublets' slide is one to think about.

reply10 / 11 / 2009
itzeluna

I loved it, very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

reply10 / 11 / 2009
Jed Diamond, Ph.D.

This great. Anyone who has an interest in words, and you wouldn't be on Scribd if you didn't, will enjoy this short visual essay

reply10 / 10 / 2009
venus85

thanks for sharing

10 / 10 / 2009
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