Word: volapuk
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...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...
...What the World needs most," says Orthologist Charles Kay Ogden, ''is about 1,000 more dead languages - and one more alive." Seeing the modern Babel as the principal barrier to worldwide communication, commerce and science. Ogden cast about for a linguistic ladder. Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent...
...York to-night. An address will be delivered by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, on the "Aims and Traits of a World Language." A discussion will take place after the lecture, and it will be participated in by Professor Charles E. Sprague, representing Volapuk, and Professor Alexander M. Bell, on behalf of "World English." President Eliot, of Harvard, ex-President McCosh, of Princeton, and ex-President Porter, of Yale, who are members of the club, will probably be present...
...Languages, to be held at Oswego, N. Y., from July 9 to August 18, and of which Prof. Adolphe Cohn, assistant professor of French at Harvard, is one of the principals. Mr. Wright will conduct a class in French at the school and will explain the elements of Volapuk if a sufficient number of the pupils desire...
...Europe, eleven periodicals are de voted to Volapuk, and the new language has been studied by over 100,000 persons...