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The Periods of English Lang--
Old, Middle, Modern? |
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- 500-1000 AD
- 1000-1500 AD
- 1500-Present AD
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Who, exactly, was Sir William Jones?
(HINT- 13, IE, BS) |
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| Linguist who discovered the common ancestor of languages, the Indo-Europeans, who lived around the Black Sea and migrated around 3500-2500 BC :) |
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| Did Caesar ever conquer England? |
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OF COURSE NOT,
he just made salads that make you barf. |
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| Who conquered England in 43-45 AD? |
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Claudius.
You can remember this by Claud is like Cloud. clouds have been around since 43-45 AD, duh. |
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Hadrian-
120-123 AD
What's so important about this guy? |
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Nothing, I'm going to forget after tomorrow.
-Hadrians wall. (383 AD Wall abandoned, kept the PICTS out and isolated their language and culture!) |
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Hadrian- 122 AD
Antonine- 142 AD |
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| Huns is not a germanic tribe. |
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| And you will not resemble any Western World Empire. |
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| 383 AD, Rome abandons _______, 410 AD Rome sacked by _______, 450 AD Rome leaves ________ |
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-Hadrians Wall
-Visigoths
-England
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Rome was attacked by which?
A. Mosquitos
B. Bunnies
C. Barbarians |
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410- Sacked
450- Pulls out of England
Celts overrun by Picts
Celts hire Jutes to attack Picts
Jutes whip Picts and refuse to leave
Angles and Saxons follow. |
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Celts got the hills.
These are Wales and Scotland.
What separated them?
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Wales- Anglosaxon Ditch
Scotland- Hadrians Wall |
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| Anglosaxons. That's why it's called the Anglosaxon Ditch. |
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Represent what sound? and are from what?
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Vikings time period-
793 AD- 1066 AD
Both dates signify what? |
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793- Attack on Anglosaxon Monks at Lindisfarne
1066- Battle of Hastings |
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Alfred the Great.
Significance? |
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849-899.
Beat out Vikings, Established British Navy, Established the Danelaw, Anglosaxon chronicle, and i guess saved English from extinction? |
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| Why can't English speakers learn other foreign languages? |
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1. Because the bulk of them are stupid.
2. Because of the intermarriage between the Anglosaxon women and the Viking men ultimately causes the loss of word endings, and in turn, makes word order crucial in the English Language. |
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Vikings are from where?
(DNS) |
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Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
DNS- |
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| Intermarriage between Vikings and Anglosaxons began as a result of what? |
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Danish conquest and the Danelaw.
(Alfred the great ^^) |
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1066- Battle of Hastings
Who, What, Why? |
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| William the Conquering Bastard from Normandy comes to claim the throne, Harold Godwinson beats Vikings in North, Bastard constructs the tower, doomsday book and brought 20-40000 French words to English Lang. |
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French does what in 1066-1362?
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| Becomes official Language of England. |
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French becomes _____
English becomes _____
1066-1362. |
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Proper.
Bad.
These are the roots of our profanity! |
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Hundred years war..
how many years? |
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| England desired to unify french with england.. |
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| what began as unification ended as war of conquest. |
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| 1362- Act of Pleading, did what exactly? |
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Made English the official language of England and translated all from the French to English.
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| so, the 116 years did what? |
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| Changed England from French Speaking to English Speaking. |
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| Began printing in English and fucked up spelling. |
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End of 100 years war
Circa 1500. (1453)
What happened? |
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Modern English begins!
Moved from French vowel pronunciation
England separates itself from mainland languages with lost conjugations, diff sentence structure, and now shifted pronunciations. |
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