Excerpt from Delphos the Future of International Language International Congresses of all sorts are similarly impeded. Impromptu translations, by which the business is delayed, provide, at best, only a summarized paraphrase Of the speeches, which are Often garbled beyond the recognition of their authors, as we can personally testify from experience. Though prejudice and inertia have deferred the establishment of a world-language, means of international communication have been devised, of necessity, to meet many claimant ...
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Excerpt from Delphos the Future of International Language International Congresses of all sorts are similarly impeded. Impromptu translations, by which the business is delayed, provide, at best, only a summarized paraphrase Of the speeches, which are Often garbled beyond the recognition of their authors, as we can personally testify from experience. Though prejudice and inertia have deferred the establishment of a world-language, means of international communication have been devised, of necessity, to meet many claimant needs. Such include the Morse Code, in vented in 1832 (but foreshadowed in method by Bacon's cipher so early as the sixteenth century); the maritime signal code adopted by England and France in 1862 and soon after by all nations; the Gregorian calendar; maps, and figures, the face of the clock; the measuration Of time, and the notation of music. Chemistry, botany, and other sciences have their universal signs and nomenclature. The Formulario de Mathematica of Peano, 1895 - 1908, has completed the elimination of language from mathematics. Dewey's decimal classification of 'books, invented in 1873, meets no linguistic barriers. The civilized world west of Germany has adopted the Roman alphabet, which is always becoming more widely used in printing German. The Angora government has resolved to use it instead Of Arabic characters for the Turkish language, and missionaries substitute it for those of the Far Eastern tongues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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This is an enlarged reprint of an older (ca. 1927) book on international auxiliary languages. The copy I received had one page, some listings of Ido verb forms, which did not reproduce well, but otherwise the reproduction was excellent. It is professionally printed and bound. It is in the Classic Reprint Series from Forgotten Books and is apparently a reproduction from a formerly privately owned copy. The book is short enough that a native English speaker could read it in one long session.
For those interested in the matter of (largely constructed) international auxiliary languages, it is a worthy purchase. Some modern students of the matter may complain that the author is making an old case, but it is significant that she does MAKE a case. She argues for her position.
Although she does not actually come down exactly on the side of one or another auxiliary language, the one she discusses which seems to come closest to her criteria is the original Interlingua, Peano's Latino sine Flexione (not to be confused with the later Interlingua of the International Auxiliary Language Association.
Yes, because this book came out in the 1920's (it is undated but seems to have been from 1927), it obviously does not discuss later (constructed) auxiliary languages, such as Novial and IALA Interlingua, but one could apply her criteria to them.
Again, this is an older work, which some modern students will not agree with, but this reviewer considers it a Very Good Thing that it has been reprinted and is once again available.
