English is bad language essay 500words
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English is so bad, you might ask why it’s so commonly used in popular music. The vast majority of songs in the Eurovision Song Contest are sung in English. There may be geo-political issues involved, but more likely its because of the adaptability of the language and its flexibility which so annoys the purists.
You might also ask if English is so terrible, then why has so much great literature, poetry and drama emerged from it.
English is, like the British Constitution, the complex and often self-contradictory result of many hundreds of years of compromise and common usage. There is no single, authoritative body, as there are in many languages, which seek to standardise and regularise it. Attempts have been made, but they’ve all failed and been frustrated by the simple fluid way in which the speakers have sought to exploit this medium of communication. It adopts and borrows forms and words where they are found to be useful.
As far as its roots go, modern English is essentially a Germanic language which has undergone a hybridisation with French. That unlikely combination means that it has lost much of the original, and complex forms of inflection that were in Old English. Among other things, it has dropped that weird idea of gender that tends to plague European languages (and over which they can’t agree), along with all the profoundly useless inflections in verbs and the like required mirror it. Whilst it is infuriatingly irregular at time, its very fluidity lends itself to picturesque and idiomatic phrasing plucking its vocabulary from the enormous range of cultural and linguistic influences that have played across it. It is rich in synonyms due to these sources, and the word-smith often has the choice of mellifluous Latin rooted word or a more terse Anglo-Saxon one to spice up the language, add impetus or to change the tempo.
In any event, anything that has produced the wonderful prose of the King James authorised edition of the Bible or the works of Shakespeare cannot possibly be described as “bad”.
You might also ask if English is so terrible, then why has so much great literature, poetry and drama emerged from it.
English is, like the British Constitution, the complex and often self-contradictory result of many hundreds of years of compromise and common usage. There is no single, authoritative body, as there are in many languages, which seek to standardise and regularise it. Attempts have been made, but they’ve all failed and been frustrated by the simple fluid way in which the speakers have sought to exploit this medium of communication. It adopts and borrows forms and words where they are found to be useful.
As far as its roots go, modern English is essentially a Germanic language which has undergone a hybridisation with French. That unlikely combination means that it has lost much of the original, and complex forms of inflection that were in Old English. Among other things, it has dropped that weird idea of gender that tends to plague European languages (and over which they can’t agree), along with all the profoundly useless inflections in verbs and the like required mirror it. Whilst it is infuriatingly irregular at time, its very fluidity lends itself to picturesque and idiomatic phrasing plucking its vocabulary from the enormous range of cultural and linguistic influences that have played across it. It is rich in synonyms due to these sources, and the word-smith often has the choice of mellifluous Latin rooted word or a more terse Anglo-Saxon one to spice up the language, add impetus or to change the tempo.
In any event, anything that has produced the wonderful prose of the King James authorised edition of the Bible or the works of Shakespeare cannot possibly be described as “bad”.
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