Engelsk tentamen...

Tenkte jeg skulle poste min første blogg.

Vi hadde heldags i dag og det var i engelsk. Jeg hadde selvsagt ikke forberedt meg noe særlig. Starta å se på hva det var vi skulle finne ut på forhånd klokka halv ett i går;-)
Jeg tenkte at oppgaven ikke kunne være så vanskelig, siden jeg hadde fått beskjed om at oppgaven var veldig lik den vi hadde på forrige skrivedag. De andre hadde ikke det problemet, siden vi var bare to som valgte den oppgaven, som skulle være den vanskeligste.
Fikk 6 på den oppgaven og bare 2 feil på en tekst på over 700 ord!! *Stolt*
Jeg var da den eneste som fikk ren 6!

I alle fall. Jeg møtte på skolen til vanlig tid, klokka 08.10. Vi fikk oppgaven, og fant samtidig ut at alt var totalt kaos. Vi endte opp med å bli sittende i samme klasserom som andre klassingene som skulle ha heldags i Norsk!
Jeg tok en titt på de tre oppgavene vi skulle velge mellom, etter å ha gjort noen enkle gramatikkoppgaver på del 1. Så med en gang at oppgavene var om ganske kjedelige og dårlig definerte tema, så min første tanke var vel; "Der røk sekseren"
Valgte meg deretter ut den oppgaven som nok var regnet som den vanskeligste. (Sensor måtte ut og spørre om noe, så det ble litt snakking, og det mente de andre i alle fall)

Jeg gikk så inn på mine dokumenter og fant fram den oppgaven jeg skrev forrige gang. Fant litt inspirasjon, men uten å skrive av noe eller gjenta argumenter. Oppgaven var ikke så lik som jeg hadde trodd.

Den første tiden jobbet jeg sakte og litt på halvt gir og resultatet virket ganske middelmådig og usammenhengende.
Etter en stund var jeg helt tom i hodet og fingrene kriblet. Før jeg visste ord av det hadde jeg funnet fram sjakkspille i Vista og spillte ett parti! Etter det spillte jeg et par kabaler med FreeCell!
Jeg kom etter en stund på at jeg måtte tilbake til oppgaven. Så. Jeg skrev en del til, men tok stadig vekk pauser med FreeCell (av alle ting) Prøvde å se om jeg klarte å logge meg på internett, men alle var sikret. (Det var forresten et nettverk som het kline_net!)
ÆSJ! Jeg typisk. Nå som jeg hadde så stor trang til å titte innom GR:(

Jeg ble til slutt ferdig, og var den siste som leverte oppgaven. Her er den forresten:

Inheriting the English language

English is an international language used by people all over the world. It is one of the languages with most native speakers in the world, as it is the mother tongue of about 350 million people, only beaten by Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
English is the main lingua franca of the world, which means it is the mainly used language to communicate between people with different mother tongues, and there will soon be three billion people that are able to speak English.

With that many speakers it is naturally adapted and slightly changed by the users according their needs. This means the language will eventually develop into two or more separate languages if it is not guided by common rules and supervised by experts. With time it may become difficult for westerns to understand English spoken in Asian countries and vice versa.

However, there is a question who should decide about the changing rules. Should it be experts in Oxford or London? Would it be best to have the people of the British Isles to decide the speed and degree of changes to the language, by letting the spoken language develop amongst the sixty millions and then to adapt the writing. After all it is the British who spoke the language originally.

On the contrary it could be the Americans, who should house the experts, since they house the majority of the people with English as their native tongue. They have already changed English and have some different words. But in America, English is not an official language as they have none. However, a lot of states have English as an official language.

The question about who decides the changes of the English language is in many ways a question about who owns the language. The English are the ones that spread it to the rest of the world. They have formed it since the middle ages when it took over from French as the official language on the Isles. By spreading their empire to the rest of the world, they made their language world dominant, and it still is, long after the British Empire was disbanded.

On the other hand, the English language is actually not entirely English. It is a Germanic section deriving of the Indo-European languages inherited from the Celts, but the language contains huge amounts of words from other languages, like French, Latin and even Norwegian.

The English language is a part of the culture in most countries, even those where English is not an official language. It has found its way to everyone trough music, and the fact that most new technologies and inventions are first named in English. Then, many languages take the English word as their own.
The way English is used in songs, it is often simplified. This simplified version is often adopted by the youths, who make their own oral language.
The youths normally forget about the simplified language when they grow up, but some words and phrases live on, and become part of at least the spoken language. This gradually adapts the language to the youths which is not entirely negative, as it is the young who are going to speak the language when they grow up. In a way it is the young, all over the world, who own the language. The grown ups are only borrowing it.

Obviously, you can truly not say that anyone owns the English language or has more or less right to use it, neither spoken nor written. However, the English language needs some rules and guidelines, and those have to be set somewhere in the world. Then it is naturally that the centre for this task is one of the countries with English as mother tongue. Preferably England, as they have decided the changes until now, or the USA, as they are the largest English speaking nation in the world.

Om lærern min skulle Google teksten,finner hun vel denne. Men vi måtte skrive den ut, så jeg tviler på at hun gjør det.
Nederst er et bilde av at jeg spiller FreeCell