Word: lingua
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...infallibilis nee impeccabilis Latina Temporis est. Non liqueris aut liqui sed loqueris et loqui, (Non liquor fluidus sed lingua fluens.) O temporal O mores I O Papa Tempus! Tu certe non es papabilis...
HARVARD HOLY CROSS Dubiel, le re, Curley Glendinning, lt rt, Moncewicz Gaffney, lg rg, Flanagan or Lingua Grebley, c c, Mautner Kessler, rg lg, Luciano Maser, rt lf, Gavin Kelly, re le, Daughters Hedblom, qb qb, Kidd Adzigian, lhb rhb, Morris Ford, rhb lhb, Dougherty Blackwood, fb fb, Yablonsky...
...Flanagan, or 227 Lingua Right Guard...
After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...
...American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...