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Show No New Language Without Established Literature Can Be Adopted by World By A. Y. SMITH There are several reasons which seem to have been overlooked why . no new language that people will use can be created. Also, why no common com-mon language for use in writing by people of different tongues can be made successful. The only language that can ever displace the others and become universal uni-versal must be some language now spoken, and with a standard literature. litera-ture. It seems strange it has not been considered; people must have a literature. No language can be kept pure without literary standards. Besides, it is something every people will have. They will not dispense with it. The literature of one language can rarely be translated into another and have any force or interest, or, in fact, be literature at all. Put into another tongue it, in most cases, ceases to be literature, and becomes dull and uninteresting. The reasons can easily be conceived. Different languages have different usages and idioms. The poetry is nearly always lost by translation. Earely can a poem of one language be paraphrased in another and be anything like the original. Tcople must have a deep and impressive literature of some sort, if for no other reason than to keep the language pure. They will not turn (o any language that has none, because they cannot take any literature with them. Any brogue or "lingo" formed by people of different languages lan-guages now, as the English was formed about six hundred years ago, would only be "vulgar" and would be condemned in advance. No literature litera-ture could be brought to it. and people would not wait for it to develop one. |