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The last few weeks a friend of mine in Isreal was asking me about certain things about the English langauage.
Now she speaks English fluetly, her comapny deals mainly with the US markets. Recently they have been dealing with South Afica more and more. So they have been having English languages lessons. This week it was about nursery rymes. In their relationship to history and the way words and events will change over time.
Well most could be explained, this one brought a few shocks and understanding that English language and history are very closly linked.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Humpty Dumpty was actually a large cannon that fell off a castle parapet and shattered. The reason he fell was lost to time and is subject to host of debates and aguments.
In my firnds class they could understand that the men could possibly rebuild the cannon. But no one could work out what could all the hosres do?
Untill some one mention gluing wood.
Que the the relation between horses and glue.
Now she speaks English fluetly, her comapny deals mainly with the US markets. Recently they have been dealing with South Afica more and more. So they have been having English languages lessons. This week it was about nursery rymes. In their relationship to history and the way words and events will change over time.
Well most could be explained, this one brought a few shocks and understanding that English language and history are very closly linked.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Humpty Dumpty was actually a large cannon that fell off a castle parapet and shattered. The reason he fell was lost to time and is subject to host of debates and aguments.
In my firnds class they could understand that the men could possibly rebuild the cannon. But no one could work out what could all the hosres do?
Untill some one mention gluing wood.
Que the the relation between horses and glue.