Communication
Grammar and Structure in Language Mixes: Sounds and Word Order
When speakers of different languages meet, a mix of language structures is created. […]
Professor John McWhorter
Communication
Word Borrowing: The Inevitable Universal Phenomena
Due to their cultural disposition, there is lesser word borrowing in some languages as compared to others. […]
Communication
How the Infiltration of French Words Changed English
French had become the language of England, and this resulted in a great many French words being borrowed in English. […]
Communication
Old English: The Dilution Of Language
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. […]
Communication
Double Negatives in English: Are They Really Wrong?
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. […]
Communication
The Billy-and-Me-Went-to-the Store Rule
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. […]
Communication
English Language: Understanding the Rules and Complications
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. […]
Language
Public Speaking and Writing: Art or Artifice?
You can be artful in both written and spoken languages, but it depends on how language is used. […]
Language
Oral Structure of Early Writing: Short and Rambling
The earliest writing of languages tends very strongly to be very concise. These people are just scratching down what they say, and what they say is spoken language. […]
Communication
The Preservation of Words: Oral and Written Language
Written language is very new, compared to the spoken language. But written languages preserve many words that have been forgotten by language speakers. […]