Word: interlingua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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
...stating the case for Interlingua, Gode emphasizes that he does not believe the language will ever replace present natural languages, or that this is even desirable. But it will serve, he hopes, as the common tongue whenever men speaking different languages want to communicate...
...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