What got me into linguistics, you ask? The history of English. Actually, it was even earlier, when I was in middle school. One day I was looking up a word in my parents American Heritage Dictionary, and I came across this genetic tree of Indo-European languages.
 |
| http://www.best-infographics.com/indo-european-family-of-languages-tree/ |
I think I sat pouring over that tree for a good hour. But it wasn't until my last semester as an undergrad English major that I feel in love with linguistics, while reading Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language. So what a treat it was when a couple of my fellow word nerds posted, on FB, this awesome video of people reciting Shakespeare using the Renaissance English pronunciation they have reconstructed. Enjoy!
No comments:
Post a Comment