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Its talking about some soup that they make over the winter that makes people feel better or something like that. And it has been known for a while. The soup is called the Lost Slumgullions. And it is known for the people in the United States. And also talks about funky words.
ReplyDeleteWell the English language is a very interesting thing. It has so many rules. Plus a whole lot of guide lines, so that people don't get confused. The English language is very confusing. People need to learn how to use it.
ReplyDeleteWell we read about old English words and how people try to use them. A lot of people try to use big words and some can but when those who don't know how to use them and use them just sound dumb. So people just don't use them if you don't know how to you fill me. And its all was good to use big words cause you look more professional and you can use it for papers and stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think it's talking about how when we first started talking english and the way we talked wasn't good enough so with time we had to add more things. One of the subjects we read as well like a drama,love,comedy and somewhat of other kinds of books. I don't know what I was reading, I got lost and didn't find this to be something I wanted to read can next time will you please get something that we will understand and be inserted to read. That would help out a lot.
ReplyDeletein this article it all talks about how today we have lost contact with our old English language. it also stated that how this police chief wrote this book and it was about the urban slang so to speak. how you could speak to your homies. and if the police were listing they couldn't understand what ur saying.
ReplyDeleteThe problem for a writer who has seized upon a story set in the past is how to create a narrative voice. It has a complicated sort of ventriloquism, worst perils and most intense attractions lies in dictionaries. His favorite dictionarie is "The Secret Language of Crime". It was publish in 1859, by a New York City police chief. His name was George W. Matsell. He was also the editor a newspaper.
ReplyDeletePeople trying to use a bunch of old English words. How people use them for stores any many other stuff. Old English is really hard to understand when you don't get the feel of it. But its interesting how they used them.
ReplyDeleteIt is talking about idioms and the slang in our English language today. People say stuff like chill out and in the dictionary it could not tell you what it meant. Its just a lot of slang and just idioms.
ReplyDeleteEnglish is the main language. How you say something is the way people see you. Knowing the correct way of speaking English is very important and good. Knowing English will make you look like a very sophisticated person, it will show people that you know what you're saying and doing.
ReplyDeleteThe article "The Lost Slummgullion of English" has so many thing to do with language. Something are really different I don't think I have ever heard those words the writer typed down in my life and I probable bet it is going to be the last time I hear them. "Shickster" is a women, I would never call a women hey shickster because that kind of sounds offensive. If someone told me that i would probably smack them across the face.
ReplyDeleteThis article is very descriptive on the use of dead vocabulary words from a long long time ago. A man by the name of Matsell tried bringing back these dead dinosaurs and put them in his plays in the 1930s. But now in today's society all of these vocab words are dead today. But one day someone will rediscover these words using the dictionaries the best source in the world to bring back these vocab words to life.
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