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  • United States Indenpendence Day (4 July)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 5 21:28:25 2024
    ...as everybody knows.
    And the linguistic angle is...well, we go back to Noah Webster:

    "As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our
    own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we
    are , and whose language we speak, should no longer be _our_
    standard...she is at too great a distance to be our model, and to
    instruct us in the principles of our own tongue."
    (Dissertations on the English Language, 1789)

    More here:

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45738/45738-h/45738-h.htm

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  • From Adam Funk@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Fri Jul 5 11:32:33 2024
    On 2024-07-05, Ross Clark wrote:

    ...as everybody knows.
    And the linguistic angle is...well, we go back to Noah Webster:

    There's another linguistic angle: the first newspaper to report on the Declaration of Independence was the Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote, a German-language newspaper (in Pennsylvania).


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