History of the English Language

            The history of the english language appears dull and mundine at first glance. When you look at it deeper you realize how much of an understatment this really is. When you try to get engaged in it however, it gets intresting at some points. You get to see how it's evolved over the years and how it is and always will be improved as time goes by. One thing I found cool was how modern day english is like a giant mixing bowl of ancient languages. All this diversity in where the words came from creates a very full and intresting language. It also makes it extremly hard to learn. Because of the multiple influences on modern english, we have tons of synonoms for words. For example, cottage the french influence and hut which is it's english counter-part.
           The fact that people used to just spell everything however they wanted really shows how much the language has evolved. There was also a drastic change when language was standerdized when people like Webster and Oxford university wrote dictionaries. And as more people learned to read and write the need for a standerdized language was more importent. Which is our mordern day english. The english language really took off with books. As people like Chaucer became celebrities in the public eye, tyhen more people wanted to learn to read so they could be involved with the poop culture of that era. Up to this point the common folk really had no use to read and write. Had Caucer never exsisted the english language would pobabl be non-exsistent today because at that time, french was the language of commerce, parliment and all upper class gatherings. So thank you Chaucer, if not for you this blog would have a lot more accents in it.

Are T.V. Addictions Still Relavent?

             I think the argument that television has addictive potential is true. When this essay was written it was just in the classic t.v. form however. I think that now days the argument stands more true than it did in 2002 because, there are so many means in which it can be accesses through. You can now watch television wherever you go, on a laptop, your smartphone. I think it is much more accesable and therfore you are more likly to become addicted. For example if you like crack and you know one guy who has some ussually once a week, well your intake is going to be limited. But say all of a sudden there's a crack dealer on every corner offering it very cheap or even free well then, you definatly are more likly to become addicted.
             On the other hand because there is things like Netflix where you can power through a season of a show in a weekend, t.v. use is more concentrated. Also a bonus when watching t.v. online is there isn't like 40 commercials advertising what's on next. So you only really watch what you really want to. But also beause of the internet, new addictions are appearing and some of those people who were addicted to t.v. are moving over to other things like online gaming.