Plainly, this guy who writes:
The history of modern English begins around A.D.450.
doesn't deserve an academic treatment as he is nowhere near the subject he pretends to be teaching through his naive, platitudinous utterances. Maybe, it is unwarranted harshness to call naïveté idiocy. Yet, abusing a popular weekly's pages to spread misinformation and foist idiocy on gullible learners is a crime. This columnist has been doing this for nearly a year now. If good-for-nothing fellows don't confine their good-for-nothing jobs to their private perversity, they are more than likely to get rude shocks in their public enterprises.
This week the columnist is zooming back in time in a time machine to survey the development of English language.
He starts his business with a ridiculous redundancy. "science fiction story". I don't know if it is acceptable elsewhere but certainly not in an English language column.
He talks of Celtic thus:
This language is entirely different from English.
A mere platitude but idiocy to boot. Celtic is a language family and not one language.
During 55 B.C. the British Isles were conquered by Romans. As a result a number of Latin words entered English.
So, English was there when Caesar arrived! How fast he zooms back in his time machine from his own A.D. 450!
Old English or Anglo-Saxon English was primarily Germanic.
Anglo-Saxon English! Anglo-Saxon was another name for Old English. So, Anglo-Saxon English is nonsense.
If you look closely you will have to find fault with every sentence he writes but it is not worthwhile. This is just a case of calling a spade spade. What else would a faculty member of this institution deserve? Oh, boy! that asinine page belongs to an "Institute of English"!
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