Psycho Linguist Professor

The name of this crazy man escapes me at the moment, however I was pleasantly surprised by his lecture regarding the changing of the English language.

The man made some very valid points, and many things that I could definitely relate to. He talked about how English never really was supposed to be a language, it was just derived from Anglo-Saxon German and French. I found that pretty interesting, I had never heard that before. It does make sense though. When you think about some of the "big" words we know in English, they're similar to some French words. Everyone always says that French is the most beautiful language to speak or to listen to, so that is probably why.

Also, he said that most people today don't even speak English the way it is supposed to be spoken. Our sentences and words are jumbled together; sometimes you can tell what the person is actually trying to say, sometimes you can't. Something I noticed with this is that if you've ever spoken to a foreign exchange student or someone from a different country, you have to really enunciate your words in order for them to understand. If you speak quickly and jumble everything together like we are used to doing, they won't understand what you're saying. But if you speak more slowly and enunciate, chances are that he or she will understand. Part of this may just be that they don't know English as well as we do, but I think that the main problem is our tendency to jumble words. The same goes for when a foreign exchange student it speaking to you. They often enunciate their words a lot, because when they were taught how to speak English as a second or third language, they were actually taught it the right way. Imagine that, foreigners speak better English than we do.