COR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Germanic Languages
17 Feb 2017
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Language is an agent of cross pollination (for better or for worse: we want to understand that cultures cross pollinate for better or for worse, world uses ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)ic la(cid:374)guage as (cid:858)li(cid:374)gua fra(cid:374)ca(cid:859)-latin term. A commodity of exchange (for whole world) Germanic instead of latin: talk about class friday & today. Came to be starting w/ egyptians ending w/ All you have to do is look in a dorm to see people from all over the world mixing linguistic phrases: people from boston say wicked, from s say y(cid:859)all. Can see their stuff when in italy. No idea where they came from: then romans expand into greece (cleopatra), holy land, egypt, Spain (iberia), france (gal), england (britain), romans left behind. Built hadria(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)all to keep scottish out. Had their own corner in cologne: *everywhere they went the romans brought their language. What english is today, latin was to then. There being a common language was what held everyone together.
