Word: interlingua
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...facto manager, Blasingame tried to learn the language but found that "my teacher only taught me strictly formal Japanese when I needed a baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese...
...imply that Interlingua is a computer of Esperanto. (2) You imply that the Interlingua is an aspirant to the rank of the Universal language...
...facts of the matter are (1) that Esperanto is carried by an ideology which is inimical to many things I and my fellow promoters of Interlingua hold sacred, and (2) that I consider the whole idea of a universal auxiliary language impractical and undesirable, including even the electronic version envisaged by Professor Whatmough...
When you have a document to which educated speakers of various languages should have access, Interlingua comes in as a handy tool. That is all. Everything else I have ever written or said on the subject represents an effort to explain to myself and to others why it is that Interlingua works well when it is thus used. In imagine additional availability has been found useful. I imagine additional journals in medicine and other disciplines will adopt Interlingua summaries within the coming years. Alexander Gode
...best features of Interlingua according to Gode, is its simplicity to incorporate essential improvements in form through the "organic developments of usage." This bit of lgic, however, is also questionable. The International Society of Hematology recently published as announcement of a conference in Interlingua. Included in the social plans was a clambake; in Interlingua, this turned out to be a "picnic a bivalvos." Quite possibly, as Whatmough has suggested, the only real improvement of Interlingua over other universal languages is that you can learn it any morning before breakfast if you know Latin