Term Papers on CHAOS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Term Paper Title	CHAOS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
# of Words	979
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.92

CHAOS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Chris Shuler
Stefan Cairn and Roger Roy
Honors Seminar
February 17, 1999

     Throughout my life I have not yet witnessed anything that has given me an intellectual challenge so I do not bother to try.  Well this course has given me that challenge I have been looking for and I had to narrow my topic down from one of many to just one.  Since I am good at mathematics and have not tried at that since second grade I decided not to go that way, as I said before I wanted a challenge.  I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could arise to the occasion, no pun intended.  I looked back at all the subjects I had trouble with, which was not many, and chose English.  My skills in English have yet to be mastered and it is not one of my favorite subjects so I do not even bother with it.  I am off to try and prove that language is chaotic and will use the English language along with the other few languages I know.  This will not only be interesting for you but it will be interesting for me as well.
     Throughout many years of my life I have taken languages as courses.  I was fortunate and got French offered to me in the sixth grade and learned to hate it in high school and then took Latin.  Latin is where I was I taught that English was a hyped up version of Latin.  I know what you are thinking now...YOU’RE WRONG!!  Well maybe I am and maybe I am not.  The word agriculture comes from the Latin word agricola and the word paternal come from the Latin word pater.  Agricola means farm as I recall and pater means father.  There are many words in the English language that come from Latin roots and I will definitely not go into all of them.  What I am trying to get is how in the hell do you come up with some of these words in the English language or how in the hell do you define one word if you just started out with that one word.  For example the word is-the verb to be.  How in God’s creation can you define one word with two words?  Then if you have those two words you have to go to the words defining them.  The word to has not one definition but twenty-one and the word be has eleven.  Now how can you define a simple two letter word with many more and why would you want to define such a petty word.
     There are so many examples of the chaos in the English language that I wouldn’t know where to begin, but I will try to think of something.  A good example of the chaos in English can come from the word good.  Think about how many words can or do mean good or are just synonyms of the w...

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