Latin alphabet

Civilization. Firstly, Charlemagne improved the alphabet by introducing lowercase letters, also known as Carolingian minuscule. Carolingian minuscule replaced the Merovingian handwriting and Roman alphabet, which only contained capital letters: “Charlemagne and his clerical advisers consciously set out to improve the institutional and technical aspects of government. Carolingian script is an example. In a sense, Carolingian Script is even an improvement over Latin, which employs only capital letters.” Writing

In this paper, I argue if our modern-day society needs a global language such as English. English as a global language is necessary because it is more efficient, globalization, and most people already have some knowledge of English. English is of great importance in many places around the world, for this reason, it would be an excellent candidate to be the world’s lingua franca, or a global language. English is of importance to become our universal language, because with the globalized society we

The first and most obvious differences and similarities between the Old English extract and its Modern English counterpart is between the orthography and spelling. Referring back to the fact that the Old English Alphabet were based on the Roman alphabet and later became its own, it contains a lot of runic inscriptions (2014:8). In the Old English extract letters like “þ”, “æ”, “Д and “ð” differ from Modern English, but there are familiar letters like a, b, c and d that we still

The point of literature Personally, I think the point of literature is entirely subjective. Even the definition of literature can be interpreted differently. In class just now, it was defined as written works with artistic value, which I agree with to some extent, but then again, what does and doesn’t constitute as artistically valuable is also subjective. I feel like I’m on a fast-track to my history and philosophy class here, being all like “everything is subjective, nothing is real”. The point

Nonstandard dialect in most countries like America is known to be used by low or non-prestige groups that have many grammatical errors and that are considered to be uneducated. This conclusion was acquired because of the negative attention that this kind of dialect draws. Educated people tend to judge the speaker of such a dialect as socially inferior, and non-educated. People in general usually use the terms "bad", “improper” or "incorrect" to describe Non-standard English. Today I’m going to show

All of us here speak English. And all of us here have probably wondered why Knee, Know, and Knife have the letter ‘K’ in front of them. What point does this serve? It doesn’t change the pronunciation of the word at all, so why is it there? There is really no point in having it, apart from making the language harder to learn for people who don’t speak it natively. According to linguists, this helps distinguish homophones in words, for example in/inn, it helps distinguish the difference between the

its history. Studying the events that formed our language is vital to understand not only why we speak the way we do, but it also enables us to understand who we are. It comprises French, Latin, German, Norse, and a few lesser known tongues. Before there was written English, our texts were primarily written in Latin, and were reserved to be read by only the Pious and Royal. We also have historical landmarks such as Stonehenge that can guide us in understanding our English heritage. The language we speak

“Hãy đến đây và giúp mẹ nói chuyện với cô,” my mom would utter to me as she nods her head and smiles nervously to the cashier at the department store. This was and is a common phrase my mother would use. Often times, she would anxiously gesture towards me, and softly call me over to translate for her when she is ready to check out her items at the store and converse with the cashier, who is, a myriad of times, promoting new store offers and asking the ever-present questions pertaining to the level

I never liked going to school and loved to stay at home with my mom, my brother, Christopher, and my puppy, Zoe Belle. Kindergarten was a struggle for me; I did not like my teacher and I did not like leaving my safe, comfortable home. I went to kindergarten on Monday, Wednesday and every other Friday, so on my days off my mom and I would practice my writing and penmanship skills. I remember the day vividly! I was extremely happy that I did not have to go to school! It was a bright and sunny afternoon

Thesis Statement: The way specific language is structured can shape how a person thinks about and perceives reality, leading to speakers of different languages to experience the world differently. Language does this by creating different categories that affect what we perceive in some way. Some scholars believe that language has a direct effect on how we perceive the world and some scholars don’t. The way specific language is structured can shape how a person thinks about and perceives reality