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...earthlings go about striking up a conversation with the inhabitants of other planets? The British Interplanetary Society, which considers such questions with scientific solemnity, heard a lecture last week by Lancelot Hogben, F.R.S., author of 1936's bestselling book Mathematics for the Million...
Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan...
...Loom of Language (W. W. Norton; $3.75) contains 692 pages of Swiss Philologist Frederick Bodmer's solid lore about meaningful human noise, enlivened by bright pictures and the "irresponsible or facetious remarks" of Editor Hogben, a former colleague of Bodmer at the University of Cape Town. The Loom is lively, but no cinch to read. Hogben recommends an old-fashioned as a preliminary...
...Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill's complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn...
...year-old Zurich University Ph.D. He was once a London correspondent for Swiss newspapers, then spent eleven years on Cape Town University's faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa's speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben's Highland croft, is now working on another book in London's intellectual Bloomsbury...