So the Marvel course got me sucked into EDX MOOC courses. I'm loving them. I've done three now.The Marvel course, one on coding and one on HTML5. I'll be honest, I'm mostly doing the homework and tests without watching all of the videos, but I'm learning and applying the skills to my job. This time around I'm taking an editing course with a focus on grammar. This is the homework for this week. I decided to publish it so that I can claim it as mine in case of any plagiarism. Sad but true.
As this week’s
topic in my EDX class is about verbs, I’ve decided to focus on a news article
for my blog post. If the assignment was allowed
about any grammar topic, I was going to write about the schwa, but with this
change in topic, that will be a future post.
The most
interesting thing to me about this topic is the evolution of words, how new
words enter the lexicon and how quickly social media shares these new terms
around the globe. And while newspapers
in the traditional sense are dying, they still manage to have a luster and
authority with their online posts. I am willing to consider this discussion because
it was published by them as an article and not just because I saw a tweet using
it.
Also from
the article “The competition has
been held by Langenscheidt for the past seven years and aims to reflect the
evolving nature of the German tongue. On 31 October, a jury will choose 10
winners – ranking the top five – which will be included in an ever-changing
e-book.” Langenscheidt is a
publishing company and I love that they are getting people excited about
language. I think that many
languages are open to new words, such as English and German, whereas some
languages are protected (i.e., French) and others die from a lack of change (i.e.
Latin). Every three months the Oxford Dictionary updates a list of new words
(read more:
http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/)
