Word: swensen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen's George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of 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...