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History of English (Part One)

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2009

This is an edited version from the VOA Special English website.

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  • lmao! i have a degree in english literature. this would be interesting stuff, but these narrators are KILLING me--so boring.

  • latin left behind three great languages, spanish, french and italian... WTF, what about portuguese you lazy dumbass, its more widely spoken as a native language than italian, nobody speaks italian outside of italy, not refering to italian as a foreign language which is obviously spoken by the the italian mafia in the US... Portuguese, outside of Portugal, is spoken in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, S. Tomé e Principe, Guiné Bissau -.- .l.

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  • @frenchiedee u serious?... along with english, arabic and tigrinya, and it ain't even an official language. not to mention that brazil is 5th biggest country in the world, eritrea is the 101st...

  • @PRTdragon They speak Italian in Eritrea.

  • Latin left not only Spanish, French and Italian, But ALSO Romanian, Catalan, Galego-Portuguese, and others were born from the Latin Language"

  • Pretty dry and dull. Not only are there no illustrations to keep viewers interested, the narration is almost unlistenable - thumbs down.

  • No; there are 24 languages in India spoken by more than one million people 

  • @Besimudo No; there are 24 languages in India which are spoken by more than one million people

  • "What does it look like?" instead of prpoer English: "How does it look?"

    The words "were" has also been eliminated: "Where was you at?"

    "They was here" etc etc. Does anybody really understand how important language is? It separates us from the animals. It gave us modern civilization. It deserves respect. Children should be taught it right.

  • Emonics is a totally new and steadily evolving form of the English language wich is carachterized by its bad grammar and pithy new expressions. In Emonics you always end your sentences with a preposition if U can: "Where were you at?" "Were are you going to?" The following word do not exist in Ebonics: are, an. "A apple" ; "There is a hundred people waiting in line". "Did you went yet?" instead of "Did you go?" I cannot possible list all the uniqueness of Ebonics here.

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