"A Language without Limits"

The text "A Language without Limits", published in the Toronto Star and written by Deena Kamel, talks about how Language is changing and the different Variations of Language.

In the text the author said English is getting "spiced with flavours from foreign languages", this means that English is expanding and Variating in different cultures, for example Hinglish, Chinglish, Spanglish, and others. The author also said that the English that we hear today will be different to the English of the future, because people is getting creative and people are transforming language in a good way.


Hinglish is the English Variation of Hindi people. This Language started spreading quickly by the internet and satellite channels, is the language of globalization. The University of Wales predict that the world's 350 million Hinglish speakers may soon outnumber the native English speakers in USA and the UK. 


The author also refers of English as a sponge Language, because since it was written around the year 700, it has adopted from Norse, French and Latin, among others. Jack Chambers (professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Toronto) mentioned that English is an amazingly tolerant Language, because it have traveled all around the world and it have being mixing-up with so many cultures and influences.


At the end the author puts a quote of Rena Helms-Park (professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto), "written English will remain stable, but we will see a "melting pot of Englishes".


In my opinion, Deena Kamel has an interesting opinion of people changing English, she thinks that people have being creative and they have being modifying the Language in a good way. Many people will think this is a attack to Language but y concord with her opinion.