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The Middle English
Normans arrived in the British Isles in 1066. In this period they introduced neary 900 French words(e.g. confession, honest and advance).
At that time in this area there were a lot of different languages: French was used by arisocracy and nobles, English was the language spoken by the most of the population and Latin was the language of the Church(and this is clear if we think about many words of Latin origin like diocese, psalm and requiem).In addition to this there were other languages like Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Scandivian.
In the late Middle English there was the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton:the main consequence of this new technology was the strandardisation of the written language. The classical Middle English variety was the one used by Chaucher in the 14th century.
In the Middle English there was a language reduction:names and adjectives didn'have inflections any longer, while the distinction between strong and weak adjective was over. The development of future time, absent in Old English, was just began. In the Old English the verbs sculand(should) and willan(will) were used to express necessity, while in Middle English there was the introduction of a new kind of future. The present progressive started to be used sporadically, but only in Modern English it will be developed.
Pronouns didn't change a lot, there was only the introduction of the third person singular shoe/she.
The word order SVO was fixed but there were some exceptions; for expressing wishes, desires and commendments it was used the order VS....0 votedJune 30, 20151Three Strange Autumns4
I wish I had never looked at it and I walked by it. I wish I had come back to the house and I’d slept in the damn bed but I looked at it and I went toward it. It didn’t move. It snored and gazed in my eyes. I looked around to find a stone and throw it toward the cat but I didn’t find any. I went out and passed a street. I saw the cat which jumped the wall down and passed the street faster than me. While I arrived at a street, everywhere was silent.A cold wind blew. I put my head into my collar over coat and my hands were in my pocket and I walked very fast. I arrived at a junction and passed across the street. I arrived at a middle of the street. I saw a white truck that moved in closer with a crinkly form. My eyes became dark while I wanted to move. I spent seconds in darkness. My eyes opened poco and poco and I saw a young man who looked at me with worried eyes. A man was biting his lip. Seconds elapse slowly. A young man escaped and I couldn’t see him. After that I heard a noise of a car that kept out. The sky was closer and I couldn’t feel anything. After a few minutes, I saw some worried eyes that were confused on the top of my head and I heard intricate sound. Between hazy faces, I saw a face of a man who was familiar. His look was different with others and he gazed my eyes. I think I’d seen him before. I looked him carefully; it was Mahmoud with gray eyes.
I felt lightly like someone who took her clothes off. I rose by and by. I heard people sound who was telling:” He passed away…..a coward guy has escaped….Let’s put him in a car”.I passed across people, I levitated and was rising. It has spent so much time of this adventure. I don’t know how much…… I don’t have any data on a number of days here. A new day started and they called me. It was an autumn morning again. They called me for the first time. I’ve sat on a wall now. The weather is cold. I am rubbing behind my ear. Expectation is too difficult. It’s an hour that I’m sitting here. The cement is ragged and my foots and hands are paining. Finally one lamp turned up and a door of a house was opened. An old man came to the yard. I stood up on the wall and looked at him. He was familiar. I looked at him carefully, I remembered. It was a young man who had stood above my head and escaped with his car very fast. He was older than before. Hair around his head was white and sometimes he coughed. He was disturbed like person who have seen a nightmare dream. I gazed in his eyes...0 votedJune 26, 20151Profesionales de salud para practicar la idioma?
Busco un profesional de salud quien habla español para charlar 50/50. Soy enfermera en la unidad de cuidados intensivos para los bebes y hablo a veces con familias hispanohablantes. Quisiera encontrar alguien para ayudarnos mejorar en temas del hospital, el cuerpo, y equipamiento. Alguien quiere practicar? Gracias!!!!
0 votedJune 26, 20150Profesionales de salud para practicar la idioma?
Busco un profesional de salud quien habla español para charlar 50/50. Soy enfermera en la unidad de cuidados intensivos para los bebes y hablo a veces con familias hispanohablantes. Quisiera encontrar alguien para ayudarnos mejorar en temas del hospital, el cuerpo, y equipamiento. Alguien quiere practicar? Gracias!
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