Jargon "was goin' to be the standard language" in Oregon

[Dave Robertson]

Agreed, so what was this fella trying to tell the interviewer?  Did 
teachers try to build on pupils' knowledge of Jargon in order to teach them 
in English?  And was there a movement to make Jargon the state of Oregon's 
official language?  

---Dave R



On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:38:38 +0100, Anthony Grant <granta at EDGEHILL.AC.UK> 
wrote:

>Taught in schools?  I'd be surprised.  ('Learnt in the school yard' I can 
believe, as these things go.)  Anthony
>
>>>> Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA> 06/01/07 6:22 PM >>>
>Johnson, Clifton.  1908.  Highways and byways of the Pacific coast.  New
>York: MacMillan.
>
>Page 240: an old settler recalls in an interview:
>
>"We talked a jargon that was got up for the Indians; and that was taught in
>the schools.  I used to could speak that jargon better than I could English
>and we had an i-dea [sic] that was goin' to be the standard language here
>in Oregon."

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