Word: amasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This derivation of Interlingua makes it particularly appealing for Westerners, who can understand virtually every word without any previous knowledge of the language. Such is not the case with Esperanto, the grotesqueness of which illustrated in the sentence, "La gepatroj amas siajn bonajn kaj fidelajn knabinojn." In Interlingua, it reads...
Yet until grammar becomes a matter of opinion, and vocabulary an artistic style, "amo, amas, amat" must rule the language classroom. Sermons will not change instructors' attitudes toward verb declensions. To enliven and modernize the language teaching, the Faculty must recognize the inherent difference between instruction in language, and teaching...
Nassau made a better showing after intermission, with some old English glees. The words were intelligible and the clever Amo, Amas brought chuckles from Latin scholars.