Word: novial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...
...World needs most," says Orthologist Charles Kay Ogden, ''is about 1,000 more dead languages - and one more alive." Seeing the modern Babel as the principal barrier to worldwide communication, commerce and science. Ogden cast about for a linguistic ladder. Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent if he were...
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