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To: Responsibility2nd

I actually like the “pledge allegiance to God” bit.

Besides, I doubt words like “republic” exist in Navajo; most of these languages are very much stuck in time.


11 posted on 11/27/2018 1:53:26 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

They could use a definition, say ‘Free Nation” for “Republic”. The Code Talkers of WWII used circumlocutions for words that weren’t in the Navajo language.


13 posted on 11/27/2018 2:04:28 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Yeah, me too, MWT. I started on the beta of this (Duolingo Navajo) and truly, it’s definitely stuck in time, which does make is useless as a functional language I guess. But I’d also say there’s zero harm in learning it and if it helps some kids get a bit more meaning and knowledge in their lives, doesn’t that make it useful? Just wish they’d do Tsalagi.


14 posted on 11/27/2018 2:12:06 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: MeanWestTexan
Our own 'nation' was modeled after the native folks we found living in the New York state area.


 Iroquois League (as the French knew them) or Five Nations (as ... composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations.
https://www.nps.gov/fost/learn/historyculture/the-six-nations-confederacy-during-the-american-revolution.htm
 
 
...or not...
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/american-history-myths-debunked-no-native-influence-on-founding-fathers-OEQ-e6wdvEKOQwS4cKC6aA/

32 posted on 11/27/2018 6:00:15 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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