Show the promulgators of artificial universal languages es q international language laul languages 0 mages of origin and anil in active operation destin destiny y always more or less by JACOB BACKES philadelphia pa obscure seeni seem able to bao bag ellmost any amount of free advertising for their dative enterprises and editors evidently under the impression that some good is beim being done or some generous sentiment fostered use as column fillers the press notices sent out from the prom olive headquarters it must he be evident toan lone one that there is already in active operation an international langhage lang page liage whose growth to preponderance has been mainly american growth whose present pogi position tion and vitality are mainly american in this language at least five ei eighths 9 babs of the worl worlds ls printing and writing are now being done although if americans ceased their use of the canoua language e it would sink eink to fourth or fifth place abiona among the languages spoken by the civilized world the medium of expression referred to is of course the american ian language ua e possibly germans frenchmen italians spaniards and others regard 0 complacently the attempted undermining of their national languages by the and others but as for the american language the international assistant at every worlds congress and on oil the vessels of every ocean it will never be crowded out of its assured position by Esper hodgepodge sunrise Sun riso ido dido None sucho Jimdar Jim dandio idio or any other linguistic artificiality by whomsoever concocted or in whatever guise appearing |