Essay On English And Standardization

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English language seems to be easy to learn and comprehend, but when we hear about the history of it as a non-original language you become confused. The desire to know more about the language would be very understandable, and as an English learner, there are things to be known like the process of standardization, and the history of dictionaries and grammar books.

History of English And Standardization The history of English is very complicated, because English in not an original language, also the American civilization is not an ancient one like the Chinese one or the Pharaohs, which they both have their own history and rules, and they were before the American civilization. on the other hand, when England started to use English, it was just a combination from other languages such as French and Latin, that's why we found many words from different origins, which …show more content…

The term "standardization" had been defined by a YouTuber named "F Tuzi" in a lecture named "The History Of English: Middle English to Early Modern" as it is a continuing process and it happened in four steps: selection, codification, elaboration, and acceptance. The primary process was the elaboration, because it gives whether the word will be used or not. Also, standardization benefit the language because it made some rules of selecting words and function and that helped in studying the language and also helped in making it grow. As in many things, any process might have its disadvantages, so standardization used in losing local language and losing the creativity of people and literature because it had so many rules that should be followed, some of the rules will be explained

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