FORUMS

 FORUM I

What is Linguistics about?

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    In this forum, many of the students have different opinions of what is linguistic as me, without reading anything about it we replied. After that, we learned that all of the above was true so the knowledge that I got was "Linguistics is a scientific study of the language, features, and characteristics". In conclusion, linguistic studies all that is related to language development. Nevertheless, everything was not ok because I had many dudes about what is linguistic and I chose one above mine anxiety. However, everything was ok when I saw that all of the above are true and it is was what I liked most.

FORUM II

Comment:

Learned, difficult, liked most.

    A linguistic universal is a pattern that appears systematically in natural languages. A Language is unique because it is generative (which means that it can communicate an infinite number of ideas from a finite number of parts.) They are characterized by Language is arbitrary, productivity, displacement, Social Construction, etc. The difficult here as the majority of cases was my dudes, I did not have an idea of what are "languages universals" and how it is characterized, even I put some things that I consider later wrong, but the best point or that I liked most was that thanks to that mistake I search more information and learn and improve my knowledge about it. Linguistic Universal is really interesting at the end.

FORUM III

The Greatest Period in the History of the English Language Some historians say that the English language grew up the most during the Modern English period. Do you agree? From what period did the English language receive the most visible influence to become what it is nowadays?

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   At that moment I thought that the most influential period was the Old age, but after that forum, I agree with those historians that said that the Modern period and Early modern period were when the English grew up. The English language before Early modern had vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation different from that we know currently. Early Modern period with the renaissance and literacy grew up the language that acquired self-conscious terms, adoptions foreign words, and also remain in a few regional dialects. Nowadays, English has the most influence from the Modern period owing to the Industrial Revolution and technology that took them new terms and English published his first dictionary with spelling and word usage. However, the difficulty that I had in that moment was my laziness owing to the history never was my subject, and read about it or search about required too much patient and concentration to understand what I read, but it is so satisfying when I understood and learned about Modern Age because in that period the language had many influences and it was that I liked most.

FORUM IV
Time Line Tiki Toki

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My timeline Tiki Toki was referring to the Old English period, so I had to read about another period in tiki Toki. Searching in the forum I read about the Modern English Period owing to it was really interesting for me, and I learned that the early Modern English period follows the Middle English towards the end of the fifteenth. In this period the British exploration, colonization, and overseas has the acquisition of new varieties if English with its own nuances of vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. During this period people like William Shakespeare was a poet and playwright, He is considered one of the greatest writers to ever use the English language. Also, many other people let their contribution to the language. The first newspaper, the Civil War, the Restoration Period, Novels began to the language variations as English as tongue particular for philosophic purposes. Modern Age took the Dictionary and the creation of an English Academy and with this English as a language spoken by people and nowadays prefer as a second language. Those facts were that I liked most, it results too interesting for me. In another way, as I mentioned before, read a lot of historical information results too difficult for me, but I did it and I felt well to learn new information.