I’ve been teaching English as a foreign language to adults for 20 years

I’ve had the chance to teach people from all over the world. They come with stories, culture, experiences - and I get to see through their eyes

One wonderful thing is students from hot countries seeing snow for the first time. Their eyes suddenly light up and they rush to the window with the joy of tiny children

So I get to see snow for the first time as well, through their eyes

A gift

#snow #england #language #school

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.

deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…

#language #english

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

^{Colin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)}

How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…

#english #language

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

^{Colin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)}

as I shared with @munin

I love the English #language! Ever-evolving with new verbs and terms. (Now, with #slopification!) In this instance, I’ll gladly employ “to morg” because, based purely on context, it seems to be defined as

morg / mɔrg /
verb
to cause a deadly or grossly negligent outcome upon merge

Use in a sentence
*After the changes were shipped, they published just before failover and morged the live, resulting in an outage for the on call.*