Saturday, November 23, 2013

Why does third person singular s survive in English?

Since I am not an native English speaker, sometimes I was very curious about why English has the third person singular s (es).

For example, I go to school in the first person view but we say he goes to school in th third person singular

Historically, English (more strictly Anglo-Saxon) shares a same ancestor language with German.
The native of British Island was Celt and they were invaded by Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxon was kind of cousin of German. So they share similar language structure.

Both of them are also belong to Indo European Germantic, the inflectional language.
In the inflectional language, verb has its own inflction suffix as to each first/second/third person.
You can find it in Germany.

Then, England was invaded by some french language using group and it was called as Norman Conquest.
English had been mixed up with the native Celtic and, then, French.
People tended not to use the third person singular form s(es) because English is a kind of Economic language.

The above history is well known but let's think why the third person singular form s survived in English.
Actually, this is my point of view.

Since England was an island, English people was very good at sailing and they faced a very urgent situation at sea often. Even there were lots of wars. So, stragically, they tend to shorten their language by throwing away inflctional suffixes.


However, for a third person, they still needed it because differentiate it from other I or you.
In case of I or You, they see each other when they talk. Each speaker knows who you are.
By the way He or she sounds like a wind and he or she is harder to hear than I or You.
So they left the third person singular s form to know exactly who is coming because, sometimes, the speaker does not directly recognize he or she when they talk.

For an example of a war, they need to give an exact information about the enemy's strategical movement.

Let's say there was a message from the General of the enemy for the negotiation.
The messenger will say: "Our general wants to have a peace negotiation with you.
For a reply: Does he want a peace negotation? It sounds good.

As in the example, having the third person singular s form is more effective in getting the exact information,
I think that is the reason why the third person singular s has survived in English till now.

Thank you.

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Meta tag - Meta title, Meta keywords,Meta description in Magento SEO

What is meta tag?
Meta tag is a structured data showing title, keyword, description, etc for a page.
Let's see one by one in case of Magento.

- Meta title: It shows up in the browser's top line. It also makes an effect on search result.
- Meta keywords: It is a keywords for search. It can be shown in search result but it is not effective in google search as Google announceed it in 2009.
- Meta description: It is effective for search result. In my case I wrote Major points / name or title / Good features to get the reader's interest.

There is 4 places where you can put meta tag in Magento.

1. Head in system > configuration > design



Then go to Html head where I think this is the place for meta of whole homepage



You can see default title / Prefix /Suffix / default keywords /default description.
Default title, prefix and suffix are also shown in the upper part of the browser.
Between Prefix and Suffix, your product meta title will show up.

2. The next place is CMS > Page of admin panel.
Write some meta keywords and description.


3. Category page: I also think you need to to do it. Just go catalogue. Methods are same as above.

4. Product in Manage Product in Catalog sub group.

 I think it will be perfect if you are done.

Thank you.
by shop korea