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...words as possible, entirely regular in its construction, and using the best words to be found in the four or five languages in common use. The language has no artificial genders, only one conjugation, and no irregular words. The method of derivation is always the same, the adjective, verb and adverb being regularly formed from the substantive, invariably having the same termination, so it is necessary to learn only the nouns of the language. Volapuk has spread with great rapidity. Schleyer's publications date only from 1879, yet now his pupils are numbered by the thousands and seventy societies have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volapuk. | 12/8/1887 | See Source »

...verb "to give" (givon) is found as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volapuk. | 2/5/1887 | See Source »

...there at the same time. The newspaper report of the transaction says that six or seven of the sophomores were dragged over the fence and "shirted," from which it is to be inferred that the proceedings were conducted with considerable spirit, although the exact significance of the verb in quotation marks can merely be guessed at by the Philistine intelligence. - [Harpers Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/26/1885 | See Source »

...Shaffer, who announces himself as having been professor in the University of Pennsylvania, proposes to teach the people of Boston how to ac quire foreign languages. He promises "complete courses of one week each in German, Latin, Greek and French." He offers the French verb on the back of a postage stamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/22/1882 | See Source »

...verb abstruse, amo, amas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO ANNEX '83. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

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