The Story of English episode 5 - Black on White - Part 3 / 7

[bundlestacks]

Dang, her dad was a slave... no wonder the language was preserved

[jposh707]

I think it's so interesting how much English is still changing. I can see it in my own family. My grandmother, who was born in 1917 in New York, speaks much differently than I do. It's sad in a way because I feel that American English has become a lot more homogenized and institutionalized. The color and character of her vocabulary is something that will be lost when she and her generation are gone.

[TachieBillano]

@jposh707: It's inevitable, I guess. The best thing we can all do -- if we can't preserve a particular variety of English in any part of the world -- is to document it, and have writers, playwrights, actors, musicians and other artists use it as a means of telling stories set in older times as authentically as possible.