We must, they say, create a set of principles which will be carried out in our language without exceptions. Our language shall be regular and logical. The naturalists say that in order to make our language truly international, it should resemble, as closely as possible, the existing forms of the ethnic languages, and preferably the Romanic group of languages. All elements and forms shall be natural. It is more important that our language, in speech and writing, be immediately understood, than that its forms, its elements, its rules, should be independent of ethnic languages or be based on a priori considerations.
Any factor contributing to naturalness is desirable.
Our language shall be naturalistic. These different points of departure imply certain basic differences apparent in the structure of each system. I have selected merely one point which is, to my mind, of fundamental importance, that of direct and indirect derivation. Derivation is not used to indicate the etymological origin of a word. This page is hosted by Geocities .