Word: sirela
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...Sirela...
...derive this pacific outcry from the Voice of Guatemala, it was necessary to have at hand a dictionary of Sirela, an international radio language that for 25 unrewarding years has been the preoccupation of an ardent, peace-bent violinist named Carlo Spatari. Spatari brought his fiddle to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, when he was 17. Since he was 25 he has fiddled hard, taught, shot his hard-earned wad devising Sirela, based on the universally understood do, re, mi of the Guidonian musical scale. Today he is still a broke violinist, but his Sirela dictionaries...
...Sirela is founded on the mathematical basis that the seven syllables of the scale, plus a Spatari-added Bo, may be arranged into no less than 1,000,000 pronounceable combinations. These combinations are used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...
Since Carlo Spatari is an ardent pacifist, the cause of peace is well articulated in Sirela...
...Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...
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