EDUC247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Language Reform, Noah Webster
18 Feb 2018
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Native americans differed because they had more freedom/independence. Native americans had more freedom in clothes (generally running around half naked) White youth captured by indians usually decide to stay with the natives do(cid:272)u(cid:373)e(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g that it (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t that (cid:271)ad li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the(cid:373). O(cid:373)e ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e for(cid:272)efully brought back to their homes. White colonists thought natives were savages or just plain lazy beyond the reach of what teachers can help. The last thing owners wanted was to give the sla(cid:448)e youth. How parents gave names to their children and what it reveals. Today many names can be used for both sexes; this was not the case back then. 90% of the names are from the bible; true for both boys and girls. As you move south; fewer and fewer names are from the bible. In some countries people name children after an event (south africa) Nj only half the names are from the bible.
