Connecticut western news., 1872-02-16
Concluded from last weekly

"NAA h1t hAThhSoLA tOn HIN OONNECI1CUI
 WESTERN NEWS BY WILLIAM GEORGES,
 BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.
 Concluded from last week)
 No where are we more struck by the confusion of names than in the flower market. Many dishonest florist will with profit and impunity, offer the same plant for sale under half & dozen different names, of such fo midable length that they cannot fail to attract the lover of rare ''aliases :" However, not only amongst tricksters such as these. but even among we'll disposed naturalists, mania exists of naming oh- iects in pompous and perplexing manner, 30 that the masses of the people are deterred from the study ofnature, and thus deprived of one of the greatest enjoyments in life Give these people who toll for ten or twelve hours daily at the workshops or on the farm, simple and regular language in which they may read the books of nature without the expensive aid nf tearhrrs and the probability uf erroneous ,.ud merely local nomenclature. and you will in all likelihood save them from the snares of vice and deprayity, and prepare the way for a nobler life for millions. If we take the christian thought to be the touch- stone, by which all the books, which are supposed to further the civilization of the world, should be tried, not one hundredth of them will stand the test. We have but 10 take one glance at the present state of European literature, to convince ourselves that the languages are corrupted. In novels generally speaking, slang and vulgar ism are deemed wit and humor, ambiguity and satirical allusions, refinement and taste
 Aurora Floyd" and the like are eagerly deyoured by the multitude, who do not perceive ih their ravening thirst after ex- cltement, that the same trash is being con stantly dished out to them in another garb United efforts of all teachers and influen- tial men, should combine in universal we may almost call it, christian language and then no doubt better moral condition among nations would be arrived at The shallowness of thought and indifference of feeling, originating in mere superficial knowledge of even the mother tongue is surprising. The present fashion of train ing the mind in half a dozen different languages, in which as rule, only gen. eral snlattering is attained, bares but little fruit towards the general enlargement of the understanding. If dH civilized nations agreed upon learning one of them thor oughly, as the medium for all international communication, it would prove great inducement to the requirement of it. But experience proves that the present system has but little to recommend itself in this respect. Surely to learn one language (whether an existing one or one created be preferable we will discuss presently,) is palpably so much less labor than learning five or six, that it cannot fail to make us wonder why this economy of time, toll and expense has been so long neglected.
 How many folks after or 10 years schooling in Latin Or Greek, and with all the superior advantages which public school and best masters afford, can read the classical authors without the aid of dictionary How many girls understand the French literature after years of ploG- ding over it ? It has been proposed to adopt one of the existing tongues as the Inter- national> speech yet that would not be practicable, as all of them are irregular, confused and arbitrary. The requirement of the world language as English has been called, would offer an almost unsurmount- able difficulty to most eastern nations. Notwithstanding it's natural strength which it derives from the Teutonir, and the SUD- pleness and freedom supplied by the Ro- manic, there exist irregularities which would repulse the majority of strangers. Not definite rules give the accommodations, as witness the words though, through, trough, dough-" all of which according to their spelling ought to be pronounced exactly alike, while as matter of fact they all represent different sounds. Accents and vocalization defy every attempt at law. The words are taken from IA different languages, and often fashioned for some individual or local taste. The good Lon- doners make of ''La Belle Saurage," Bell and Sorage, of ''Bacchauals, Bag of nails of Better sea, Battersea; of a ''shailow sea-. chelsea. The word "haberdasher,' is synthesism of the four German words, ''a0ds ha6t thr d0 (what have you there y Many more instances are similar corrup- tions might be adduccd to the argument, showing how unfit the English language is for universal application. French, as cor rupted; Latin with it's absurd genders, irregular verbs, fanciful syntax 6c. would hardly find favor as universal tongue. The barbarous types in German which were judiciously abolished for English some hundred years ago, cannot attract students. The harshness of it's gutterals, its arbitrary grammar and the length of its words offer us practical advantages.
 The Italian language we immediately re- 1ect. being as it is, a degenerate descendant from Latin. Now indeed we can hardly recognize the grand structure of the old Italy. Few scholars perhaps would hit upon Turkish as the most eligible speech, yet in its grammar we can trace the inner 1 workings, as if watching the bees building their cells in Q glass hive. An eminent orientalist remarks, He might imagine Turkish to be tue result cf tbe deliberations of some eminent society cf learned men, ''fo love" in the most general sense of the word, or ''love" as a root is ''sey." This does not as yet mean to 'lo0e, which is 'sevmek, nor yet love as substantive, which is, sewn or 'sevi, but it only ex- presses the general quality of loving in the abstract. The root cannot be touche whatever syllables may be added for the modification of it's meaning, the root itself must remain unchanged. In language like this the mechanical uniformity of con.