Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
Now youll hear two long conversations。
Conversation One
W: Im Avi Arditti, and today we are going to continue our interview with Arthur Schulman. Hes compiled a book of words and definitions set forth by Noah Webster in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. Tell us a little bit about Noah Webster, who he was and how he came about writing his dictionary。
M: Well, he did a lot of things. He was a patriot. He was at Yale University when the American revolution broke out, and then he had to leave school for the revolution. He came back and finished his degree there. After the revolution, he was an early newspaperman, a columnist. And then he was a federalist―until his death, I think, but certainly early on, defending the revolution and a great supporter of it。
W: And as I understand it, he believed that the nation―the new nation―really needed a national language。
M: Thats right. And so he was a considerable educator. In fact, his first books were called―there were three books, all parts of what he called the Grammatical Institute, and the first one was the Speller, which continued in print until well past 1900s. So that book was in print for more than a hundred years。
W: Did he have a problem or an issue, that all these different spellings he wanted to
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