This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... should attempt to preserve their native tongue, or whether it would be better for the general welfare to allow their posterity to be ignorant of the language in which their mothers sang lullabies to them. This question is bound to create dissensions not only among the immigrants themselves, but often also between them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... should attempt to preserve their native tongue, or whether it would be better for the general welfare to allow their posterity to be ignorant of the language in which their mothers sang lullabies to them. This question is bound to create dissensions not only among the immigrants themselves, but often also between them and their neighbors of other nationalities. Some of the immigrants will be convinced that it will be of advantage to their descendants and to the country to which they now owe allegiance, if all differences of language be erased as soon as possible. Others, however, viewing the extinction of their mother tongue with much the same emotion as one experiences on seeing the passing away of a dear lifelong friend, will insist that the only rational solution of the problem lies in learning the new language and at the same time preserving the old. Thus divisions arise among the settlers. The divisions between the immigrants and their neighbors are usually caused by the lack of a mutual sympathetic understanding. The neighbors are often suspicious of them, because different languages and customs, like an almost impassable gorge, separate them from one another. It is the purpose of this chapter to give an account of these dissensions. Before I do this, however, I shall digress in order to consider the language which the immigrants spoke. Most of them were natives of South Germany, especially of the Palatinate, Wurttemberg and Switzerland.402 Since almost all of them were peasants, it is logical to suppose that they used the dialect of their native locality and that the majority of them could speak the standard High German only with difficulty, if at all. I have been able to find only one specimen of a dialect in the papers.403 A boy saw a dance for th...
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