| Show onslbs Do we need a universal oldfieli r univer-sal dream Is not the dell 1ttUrr5 1 iwU1tguugr universal language a 1t ago y dream And is it a oboe IBitt a Hrrom pretty dream lb it ° sei modest to ask mankind ostcE that it device iheril adopt mjr rse By C W ERNST Before these authors and street friends of the universal s for language I offer their con and f will not they try to make one universal word Or asking less rge atl lem add one solitary word to Englishthat is let them coin one jterel ri I irh s I that will be accepted by the Englishspeaking world rirdsl Df f late one of the brightest men speaking English undertook to sim gular almost i I the spelling of a few words lie failed lie may have had a very Ig s case but he failed to consult the 150000000 other spellers of England le will I Eng-land as they refuse to accept the simplified spelling it went the way I smoke If President Roosevelt cannot achieve a hit of simplified lESTEtl jngflhat will be the reasonable hope of the universal language such 00 and t now in the market an nd before we take up a new fad another contraption might it note not-e of 11 first to learn our own language a little better Educated men father > tetliat the English language is pretty well known as to history nellt jmism and 1 meaning They 1 are in error The first scientific prin cago in the study t 1 of English was announced in 1822 That 1 principle I is ge w dins ttl receive its final form lint bij he English language contains about a million words that is toes 1 to-es hoover wishes to speak or write English may choose from about a leposit t t e hlcajol swords The true biography of very few English words is Known hC3g3 deuce look at the latest number of the Oxford dictionary which ersoa to t give the I I I true story of such simple words ns message r metal I IPLETE cc metaphysics mineral not to mention Middle English in rCenti the editor is the leading authciily These words are named note his W not-e the editors who arc giving ns the best general dictionary of any 10 ea n language hilt to intimate the work still before us orkmea be history of English covers n Jade 2000 years the number of men erpG J-ade and make the language may be a thousand million more or lc Uy Their bundled and fifty million achievement used lement now u el by I tome that is not apt to yield to tho harmless plashing invented by some g ° in let for gumption thai ad Warsaw or Kalamazoo Meantime us pray irts art I have great trouble because we mean to say one thing and our f trial ° r understood another which is with till iual source of lawsuits family d t isfacto a itasincss troubles and social war |
