Language bundles are groups of languages that look so similar that they are not expected to be from different families, while they are. Over the years, the languages in a bundle begin to look very different from their original family. […]
When speakers of two different languages come into contact with each other, the languages can mix and form a new language. these have been coined intertwined language by the linguists. […]
Multilingual people often use languages they know together in a conversation. But this is not an indicator of incomplete learning rather it indicates proficiency in both languages and has been termed ‘code switching’. […]
When speakers of different languages meet, a mix of language structures is created. […]
Due to their cultural disposition, there is lesser word borrowing in some languages as compared to others. […]
French had become the language of England, and this resulted in a great many French words being borrowed in English. […]
Of the most used words in spoken English language, in particular, almost 99% of them belong to other languages. And 62% of these words are the frequently used words. […]
The moment you look away from textbook English, you will see everybody using double negatives. So many people people cannot be wrong. The idea is to have clear communication and not get entangled in the web of rules created centuries ago. […]
Lowth and Murray brought up one rule for English that bugs us even today. That rule is called “Billy and me went to the store” rule. […]
When Robert Lowth and Lindley Murray wrote rule books for English language, they assumed that they were preparing English. They were also under the assumption that English needed more rules than it already had. […]
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