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q3 why acceptance than value?



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Currency means the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use or to introduce/invent.

Even when you refer the context, only acceptance fits value does not make sense. You can try substituting.

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Hi There!

Currency means the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use or to introduce/invent.

Even when you refer the context, only acceptance fits value does not make sense. You can try substituting.

Hope this helps!

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I still don't understand why value doesn't make sense?
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q3 why acceptance than value?



Hi There!

Currency means the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use or to introduce/invent.

Even when you refer the context, only acceptance fits value does not make sense. You can try substituting.

Hope this helps!

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I still don't understand why value doesn't make sense?



Maybe you would want to elaborate why value makes sense? So that I can help you clarify it a bit more precisely.

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There is some evidence that where sign language was found among Native American tribes it was largely uniform, simply because many tribes had, at one time, been forced to dwell near together at peace.


All the tribe made a round table to discuss something . Therefore, the shared mutual elements, maybe, of the different languages they spoke.


A collection of signs that was nearly uniform was obtained from a united delegation of the Kaiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Wichita tribes.

Ok. here we have where the signs were collected. Very important sentence

However, the individuals who gave the signs had actually lived together at or near what was known as Anadarko, Indian Territory, for a considerable time, and the resulting uniformity of their signs might either have been thought of as jargon or as the natural tendency to compromise for mutual understanding—the unification so often observed in oral speech, coming under many circumstances out of former heterogeneity.

Difficult sentence to grasp and we could figure it out as follow: we have a round table among different tribes such as Apache. Now, at this round table, there were people, a group, we could call X. This group X received these signs of language as a common ground among the tribes. Those signs, previously were the different languages of the tribes, they were oral mainly, and often jargon. I.E. a peculiar language of the tribes



The rule is that dialects precede languages and that out of many dialects comes one language.

Important point. We have a language and this is the confluence of several dialects that comes BEFORE the formation of the language itself

It may be found that other individuals of those same tribes who had, from any cause, not lived in the union may have had signs for the same ideas different from those in the above-mentioned collection.

We could have OTHER people that were outside of that round table that could have also signs of the language . Outside the round table but that were part of the same tribes


This idea gained currency because some signs of other representatives of one of the component bodies—Apache—had actually been reported to differ from those ideas given by the Anadarko group.

This is the reason why of the previous sentence


The uniformity of the signs of those who had been secluded for years at one particular reservation was notable, but some collected signs of other Cheyennes and Sioux differed, not only from those on the reservation, but from each other. Therefore, the signs used in common by the tribes at the reservation seem to have been modified and to a certain extent unified.


Just details. Those who lived several years in am indian reservation has a common language, with consistency. However, several signs, even in this scenario, differ from the rest of the signs..
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7. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage regarding the research about Native American sign language?

A. The researchers studying the Anadarko group had a functional understanding of the signs used by the delegation of tribes.
B. Some of the signs used by the members of the Anadarko delegation differed significantly from those used by other delegation members.
C. Native American tribes who were not forced to share living space did not share any common signs.


Starting with C. I did not see this in the passage. Also even those forced several years in the reservation had different signs in the language. So also the other way around could be also true: who were not forced to live together could be also have common signs

Yes this can be inferred from the passage

the resulting uniformity of their signs might either have been thought of as jargon or as the natural tendency to compromise for mutual understanding—the unification so often observed in oral speech, coming under many circumstances out of former heterogeneity.


A is tough. At least in my view. From the general understanding of the passage and the line

However, the individuals who gave the signs had actually lived together at or near what was known as Anadarko, Indian Territory, for a considerable time, and the resulting uniformity of their signs might either have been thought of as jargon or as the natural tendency to compromise for mutual understanding—the unification so often observed in oral speech, coming under many circumstances out of former heterogeneity.

The scholars understood, at least to some extent, the mechanism how the language works. So for me A is also true

A and B are the correct choices
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8. Select the sentence of the passage in which the author draws a parallel between two different methods of communication.


However, the individuals who gave the signs had actually lived together at or near what was known as Anadarko, Indian Territory, for a considerable time, and the resulting uniformity of their signs might either have been thought of as jargon or as the natural tendency to compromise for mutual understanding—the unification so often observed in oral speech, coming under many circumstances out of former heterogeneity
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9. In the context in which it appears, “currency” most nearly means

A. funding
B. acceptance
C. value
D. uniqueness
E. contemporaneity

Maybe we can be tricked by the association between currency (dollar, yen, euro) and value.

However, here in the context currency clearly means that the idea had validation or it was grounded and not just a fantasy.

therefore, acceptance is the right choice
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