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Robert Hinman, a paperbook buyer for the Harvard Coop, says students have asked for these books persistently since they came out. They are well respected and widely talked about, he noted...
...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 one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn to write and speak it in far less time than is required to master English, French or German...
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