What can you infer about the influence of mythology on the English language?

Think for a sec... the only 'history-books' that existed before paper were stories. Eventually, paper was invented, and of course, these stories were written onto paper. After the books had been read so much, parts of it slowly became part of literature, and when traders from these countries traveled to England with their language and spoke it in bars and on docks and ships, it slowly crept into the English language Answer The first answer addresses the 'how', but what I can infer about this influence?

That language evolves over time, like a snowball rolling down a hill. It starts with a ball formed by gathering snow and bits of artifact from the place that it's formed. As it rolls down the hill, it picks up more snow and whatever artifacts (pine needles, bits of grass or weeds, seeds, stones, etc.) it encounters along its path.

As it gets heavier and the terrain changes, chunks of snow with accompanying artifacts get knocked off while new is being added. Perhaps a chunk or two will start a new snowball rolling down a different path or just lands in that spot. Eventually it comes to rest with all of it bits and pieces Language travels from generation to generation and from place to place.

At the time the language and its contemporaries were written down and passed around, the ancient mythologies were dominant features of those societies. Each society that the English language has passed through adds words and references of their culture and society. This is why we don't speak the language of Julius Caesar or even Shakespeare.

Consider all of the technology based words and terms that have come into common use that didn't exist when I learned English in school in the 1950s. I didn't even have to google (use a search engine) to add this answer.

Whenever I try to analyze the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to infer the possible consequences of the respective conflict a new holocaust crosses my mind together with a novel by Thomas Hardy: Return of the Native written in the mid nineteenth century. Fifteen years on from the Dayton Agreement, more or less, everything is said about it. However, the most popular discussion regarding the Agreement is probably the burden of its institutional structures that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) needs to deal with.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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