Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER V. LANGUAGE. TlTfl •^•^?^ people leave their native country in order to^^^^ settle in a land where the popular and official lan-guage is different from their own, the question alwaysarises, whether they should attempt to preserve their nativetongue, or whether it would be better for the general wel-fare to allow their posterity to be ignorant of the languagein which their mothers sang lullabies to them. This ques-tion is bound to create dissensions not
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . CHAPTER V. LANGUAGE. TlTfl •^•^?^ people leave their native country in order to^^^^ settle in a land where the popular and official lan-guage is different from their own, the question alwaysarises, whether they should attempt to preserve their nativetongue, or whether it would be better for the general wel-fare to allow their posterity to be ignorant of the languagein which their mothers sang lullabies to them. This ques-tion is bound to create dissensions not only among the im-migrants themselves, but often also between them and theirneighbors of other nationalities. Some of the immigrantswill be convinced that it will be of advantage to their de-scendants and to the country to which they now owe alle-giance, if all differences of language be erased as soon aspossible. Others, however, viewing the extinction of theirmother tongue with much the same emotion as one ex-periences on seeing the passing away of a dear lifelongfriend, will Insist that the only rational solution of the
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