Re: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:32:02 -0800

I didn't know about it - but it wouldn't bother Australians; they are not pleased with Paul Hogan ... mainly
because he got carried away with celebrity and left his wife and mother of his five children Noela to
marry the girl in his first movie.  He lives in California most of the time now and is not the "unsophisticated"
steel rigger he once was.
 
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:24:44 -0800 (PST) Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think it's a "right back atcha" thing
 
Is that so?
Well, how do you like the fact that some American Company bought the rights to all those Paul Hogan movies?

Judy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it's a "right back atcha" thing - for years I would go over there and hear much lamenting about
what Americans had bought; do you know an American Company now owns the all Australian
delicious spread called Vegemite?
 
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:45:33 -0800 (PST) Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've just learned that Australia is investing workers retirement funds in US Real Estate
 
They just bought the New York Thruway. Does that mean I need a passport, now?

 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor
Thanks for this Kevin
Proof of the pudding is always in the eating.
I've just learned that Australia is investing workers retirement funds in US Real Estate also
So Lance and his prophet don't have a whole lot of support from "down under" either
 
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:20:31 -0800 (PST) Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lance says Canada will not suffer the same fate at the USA.
 
Ah
 Ah
    AH CHOO!
 
excuse me
 
348,000 New York jobs are supported by Canada-U.S. trade
Total Canada–U.S. merchandise trade: $411 billion
Canada–U.S. trade supported 5.2 million U.S. jobs
More people traveled between Canada and NY in 2004 than any other U.S. state
14,500,000 vehicles crossed the Canada-U.S. border at the four Niagara crossings last year, accounting for 34% of all traffic that crossed into Ontario
 
ROTFL
With this many US Jobs gone, could CanaDUH rebound?
 
Seeing that a FULL 84% of CanaDUHs exports are US
Calculator please
That leaves 16%, can CanaDUH's economy survive on 16% of its present exports?
Remember that the Total export/imports of canada represents a FULL 2/3rds of their GDP!
SIZE does matter!
 
Thanks for the add'l example of mindless parroting.
Don't you just HATE Ignorance?
I guess it is better than letting it go to waste.

Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 'prophet' (take note, David) said otherwise in November. Canada will not suffer the same fate at the USA. Size does matter but, it's not the only thing that matters.
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Taylor
Sent: March 25, 2006 08:03
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster
 
Don't worry Lance, if the USA implodes - Canada and Europe will go with it - at present when the
US sneezes the rest of the world catch a cold.  Such envy and jealousy from the North ... Goodness gracious!
 
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir
Most on TT will live to see the implosion of the USA. At what point will you declare bankruptcy. You don't have the option of moving out of your old house and into a new one.
 
 
 
As a teacher, he had come to dislike American elementary schools. They could be overcrowded, with up to seventy children of all ages crammed into one-room schoolhouses, poorly staffed with untrained teachers, and poorly equipped with no desks and unsatisfactory textbooks which came from England. Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing a three volume compendium, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work consisted of a speller (published in 1783), a grammar (published in 1784), and a reader (published in 1785). His goal was to provide a uniquely American, Christ-centered approach to training children.
The speller was originally entitled The First Part of the Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The title was changed in 1786 to The American Spelling Book, and again in 1829 to The Elementary Spelling Book. Most people called it the "Blue-Backed Speller" because of its blue cover, and for the next one hundred years, Webster's book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time; by 1861, it was selling a million copies per year, and its royalty of less than one cent per copy was enough to sustain Webster in his other endeavors. Even Ben Franklin used Webster's book to teach his granddaughter how to read.
 
Noah was generally known to be Christian. It is reported that Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary contains the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume. Webster considered "education useless without the Bible."
  • "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” (Preface to the 1828 edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language )
Besides his dictionary, Webster also released his own translation of the Bible in 1833. In doing the translation, Webster used the King James Version as a base. He consulted the Hebrew and Greek along with various other versions and commentaries.
 
 
 
 
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