2020-10-27 BWH group 2

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes (This is BWH Group 2)
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Homework: Find a piece of art (visual, music, or anything) that you like that was created with some kind of limitation. Prepare to tell us about it next week. (Who’s the artist? What’s the limitation? What do you like about the piece?)
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http://jacklynch.net/Texts/proposal.html - Jonathan Swift complaining about language change, including “poets” dropping the -ed pronunciation.
https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/Rom_F1/complete/index.html - Shakespeare is considered Early Modern English
https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/general-prologue-0 - Chaucer is Middle English
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version - Beowulf is in Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon)
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Have you had difficulties with your name being accepted on forms in the US?
In English, “John Smith” is the most common full name.
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https://www.listenandlearnusa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/graph-1-.jpg - Language tree for languages in Europe.
mutually intelligible = speakers of each language or dialect can understand the other
	(For linguists, usually if two ways of speaking are mutually intelligible, they’re considered variants of the same language, and if they aren’t, they’re considered separate languages.)
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The pronunciation of ‘i’ is usually the name of the letter (like, write, might, thigh, eye), or what we call the “short i” sound (lick, writ, mitt, miss, with). It pretty much only sounds like /i/ in words borrowed from other languages (ski, pizza, spaghetti).