In George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language and Anne Curzan’s Teaching the Politics of Standard English, they both explain that a language becomes the standard way of speaking and writing due to social and political factors as well as the words infused in the language evolve with the social events that follow. The term for this Salafi Jihadist Militant group (ISIS) was first conceived in 1999, but it was not until it began affecting the surrounding countries that it peeked global interest. Rather than understand the implications and evolution of our language, we just adapt it free-willingly, without accounting for the previous forms of its use as well as taking the time to truly comprehend how our society adopted these words and evolved their uses in contemporary syntax and semantics, which will lead for one to question the significance of language on the way one perceives their societal environment. …show more content…
Latin has never died; rather, it has been constantly evolving into what we call “romantic languages,” which are spoken all over the world, from Spanish to Italian to French to English. As the Roman Empire continued expanding, the Latin language progressively evolved, not deteriorated, into the diverse number of languages of Western Europe as different dialects arose within them, because of the felt need to change, and began going in their own distinct directions. This example is exactly what Curzan meant when writing, “the elevation of one particular dialect to standard has more social and political causes than linguistic ones” (“Teaching the Politics of Standard English,” 344). If it were not for the latin language, which at one point was considered the standard language, “Standard English” could have never have formulated to its current