The Dying Out of The Texas German Dialect May Not Be The End for German Texans Introduction When German Texans read a headline, “Unique dialect, Texas German, taking last gasp,” alarms clang through their heads (Winkie, 2015). More than half of the 6,900 languages alive today are at risk of dying out by the end of the 21st century (Britannica). Is Texas German one of them? If so, how close is it to dying out? How do German Texans think and feel about the decline of their dialect?
In the book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, Greg is playing video games when his mother comes in to say that they have to go to church. Greg wanted to refuse, but had no option but to go. In the car, Greg accidentally sits in a spot of his little brothers chocolate stain. While getting out of the car, his brother Rodrick tells him that he has a chocolate stain. Greg asks if he could stay in the car while waiting for them but his mother refused and told him it was rather losing the game or coming inside.
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American officials saw the empire as a correlation of equals in which free colonists abroad had the equivalent rights as Britons at home. However, the British government and its appointed representatives in America viewed the empire as a structure of unequal pieces in which various rules governed different areas, and all were subject to the power of Parliament. Numerous colonists claimed that Britain had no right to tax them at all, for Americans were unrepresented in the House of Commons. Britain justified taxation by declaring that they needed a supreme legislature, to which all other controls must be secondary.
Although the American Revolution had already concluded by the end of the 18th century, another revolution was beginning to surface. The creation of America’s unique culture was taking place before their own eyes, and creating a national language was just a step in unifying a new nation. Originally, many Americans were using British resources to learn English even when they seceded from Britain. However, that was until men from across the nation, one of which was Noah Webster, wanted to create a new culture that was independent from Great Britain’s. Webster specifically wanted to help foreigners by making the spelling accurately correspond to the pronunciation with little to no difference.
As discussed in the article by Clive Thompson, many people use different ways of speaking. Based on text conversations, social media posts, and comments language has made a drastic change. TBH grammar has made like a huge change on society. Lookin at billboards and social media, people post is a totally diff manner than speaking. Lol I remember the last conversation I had with my aunt that lives in Charleston, SC.
Every day we use our culture. Whether it be to argue claims, express opinions, or make decisions, culture plays a part in each area. Culture is who we are, one’s identity, its extent is enormous over our views and actions. A person grows up surrounded with culture at a young age. This can affect how they learn and what they learn.
Intimate Colonialism is when the government tried to set up a policy that would encourage Indian Service staff members to intermarry with Native Americans. During the late 19th century, immigration was rising and the big thing in this era was assimilation. Assimilation is integrating people to be accustomed to the United States culture, behavior, value and norms. Though Native Americans have lived in America longer than anyone, the federal government thought that instead of ostracizing them for wanting to value their traditional culture, they created an assimilation policy for Native Americans. “The government’s assimilation policy sought to destroy Native nations’ cultural and political identities by replacing them with Anglo – American norms of behavior (108).”
The Intertwining Fate of American Immigrants and English Immigrants to America shaped modern American English, while English impacted immigrants’ life and education. By John Ma 3/12/2017 Have some English words made you ponder on how they were invented? Have you ever wondered why American accent differs from British accent? Understand the history of American immigrants, then you might find the answers to these questions.
My participation in MUN further allows me to present and defend opinions of Iran, Iraq, and the United States, not only pushing me outside of my comfort zone but also instills understanding and respect towards other cultures and values. My passion for dancing to Bollywood music has only been met by my Chinese choreographers who also share the same values and were willing to endeavor together to make this year’s Diwali Night a night brighter than the last – and extraordinary it was. Contrary to traditional beliefs, culture does not set a person apart; rather, it gives a reason for people of different backgrounds to sit together under one roof and eat the scrumptious delicacies each race has to offer. Culture molds me into a better human being as it presents some lessons of life which otherwise would have taken a long time to be discovered. I know the worth of my culture and have accepted it as an essential guiding element of my life.
The way people speak has to do with the community they grew up in, along with the region that an individual lives in. In America, there are many diverse dialects possibly because of the numerous cultures brought by the immigrants that came to America. As Walt Whitman said, “Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both free and compacted composition of all.” There are many different regions of American English. One of them is called the Pacific Southwest, a region that covers California.
Silence Walking out into my relative's living room, the hushed laughter and conversation died away as my face came into view. Margie smiled, laying out my breakfast choices before retreating to the study, while Paul sat with his back towards me reading the newspaper. All that was heard was the clinking of my spoon and the occasional rustle of the newspaper, the tension quickly becoming so great that the walls might crack and the windows threatened to shatter. As the others woke from their sleep, the house became louder, filling with with the chaos and noise that always seems to follow my family. Still, my uncle sat, silent, preoccupied by today's biggest story.
The book Speaking American: A History of English in the United States by Richard Bailey was a rather interesting read. The book, overall, provided an abundance amount of information about the history of the language majorly spoken in the United States of America today. If one needed to do research about American English for their history class, this would be the perfect source of information that dates all the way back to even before the 1650s. However, obtaining the knowledge is not as simple as the title may suggest; personally, for me, the author used words that were harder to understand and connect. The brilliant factual qualities were definitely dulled out by the occasional difficult to understand word choice in this book.
The Modern English language has a rich history, it develops and changes like many other world languages. The English language has mainly been influenced by Latin, Germanic and French over a period of two thousand years. The English Lexicon includes words from over 120 countries, however Latin, Germanic and Latin account approximately less than 30% each. The English language is second to none in the variety and amount of lexical words. The most penetrating influence on English in history is French during the Middle English period after the Norman conquests.
Standardization of the English Language English was not the original indigenous language of Britain. The first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, the inhabitants of the country spoke Celtic languages. Yet English shows few dialects brought by the Germanic invaders. Nor was the subsequent growth of English within Britain a smooth or inevitable trajectory. After the Norman invasion, English was not the first language of the ruling classes.
