You know that a language as well has got members of its family, words, that are exposed to death and extermination.These days I am reading Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, a novel that belongs to the 19th century. What urges me to write a word about this novel is the level of its vocabulary that makes me dictionary-bound because I can not go on reading unless I explain a large number of vocabulary on the one page. Besides, the style of the novel I do not know how to describe it, but it is either complicated or a higher one. Sometimes, I dont get the meaning of a paragraph unless I read and reread it. Besides, some words are no longer used, they have disappeared and reffered to as "old use."Compared to ancient novels, modern ones are characterized by the simplcity of their style and at hand level of vocabulary, as you may be in no need of a dictionary. A so a striking a fact which implies that a large number of words are no longer "alive."So, why the members of a languge are doomed to disappear as well?And why we no longer need them to communicate or write and finally do not use them at all?Waiting for your contributions
Just reading Charles Dickens is a great challenge for me. I do not know how much time I am going to spend in order to finish it. As far as young people and the way they write on the internet, I believe it's a bad way since it only helps forgetting about the spelling of words mainly to learners of English language.
If you want a challenge, read Shakespeare. Highschool students are often exposed to him as a great and early writer. But we all hated to study his works because we had to look up the means of many of them in special dictionaries. It almost like a foreign language.
One thing about Charles Dickens, the style was what we call flowery or very descriptive using elegant words. An author was judged on how beautiful their language and use of word was. In addition, the author received an amount of money in relation to the amount of words used. So they used a lot of words.
Our modern culture likes things efficient, short, direct and down to the point. So we struggle if we have to read these old novels. Look how young people write on the Internet. For example, "How r u today? I'm happy coz I don't have 2 go 2 school today".
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One thing about Charles Dickens, the style was what we call flowery or very descriptive using elegant words. An author was judged on how beautiful their language and use of word was. In addition, the author received an amount of money in relation to the amount of words used. So they used a lot of words.
Our modern culture likes things efficient, short, direct and down to the point. So we struggle if we have to read these old novels. Look how young people write on the Internet. For example, "How r u today? I'm happy coz I don't have 2 go 2 school today".