Word: interglossa
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...Interglossa. A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen's George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and 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...
...First clause of the Atlantic Charter in Interglossa: U President de United States syn duco Commissari-pe, Mr. Churchill, ge electio e regi Crati de United Kingdom, pre acte unio. In English: "The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill representing H.M. Government in the United Kingdom, being met together. . . ." *A Loom example of German word order: "These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller's Spoken and Written Language...
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