The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-26

/ from dosido
/ evil lamisol
for sido
/ thine lafa
/ is re
the la
/ kingdom sofia
and dOdo
I the Ia
1 power I sisi
and dodo
/ the Ia
! Glory sollala
I forever milare
/ Amen falamire
Perhaps the reader is now beginning to
| think that CosmOlangue is mere arbi-
trary grouping of sounds. That is to say,
its inventor has simply taken at random
sections of the diatonic scale, and without
rhyme or reason thrown them together to
make words. 1t is true that many of the
Cosmolangue roots are born of nothing
but the thoughtful judgment of their
creator. But IN constructing a language
designed for all nations and races, how
can arbitrary forms be avoided Sup
pose the Cosmolangue vocabulary were
founded without exception upon Aryau
derlvitives it would still be open 10 the
charge of arbitrariness from those peO-
pies whose language springs from
source other than the Aryan families of
tongues.
But Cosmolangue is not 80 arbitrary as
1t appears on slight acquaintance. The
root word may in many cases be a mere
whim of the author but from that within
is often unfolded most perfect system of
word building. Let US take as an example
the word Ladosilamisol temptation
which occurs above in the Lords prayer
This is the analysis of the word: Ladosi
near; lami, not sol, good. To form the
word evil, lami, and sol are put together
meaning literally not good. So, for evil
we have the word lamisol. Economy of
words and word particles is a cardinal
principle of Cosmolangue, and rather than
introduce a new form the author pre-
fixes the word Ladosi near to Lamisol
which gives US near evil or temptation
The aesthetic may say this is not language
at all, but jargon. Yet it is not less ele-
CANT than many of the modern Latin com
pounds, as encountered in French, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese. In the above ex-
ample it is seen that from three simple
words are evolved two compounds, with
out the slightest change in any of the
simple forms COsmolangue, owing to its
simplited method of word building,
abounds in big words.
A supreme contempt for time-honored
parts Of speech is shown. Along with
subjective and possessive personal pro
NUNS duNtIDS are COuSlRDeu 10 outer
darkness. Instead of saying, you have
done well, in Cosmolangue YOU say, fast
dOmi sol, which means literally, you have
done good. The following literal trans
lations in four languages show that sub
jective and possessive prououns may be
dispensed with without detriment to easy
omprehensibleness:
EHave you your hat Have you you
hat
! J'ai votre chapeau Moi al vous
chapeau
10 no Il mic capello Mi no mi ca
pellO
Tien listed su SOM Tien U t e d
brerO listed SOM
brero
They have his hat Them have he
hat
II a leur chapeau Lui eux cha
peau
moi abbiamo il nos MOI abbiamo
tro capello moi capello.
| Not very graceful language, to be sure,
| but only because we are not used to talk
| ing that way. ME like me beer. - while
| suggestive of swaddling clothes, is new
! ertheless clearly Understandable, and as
| forcibly expressive as Il like my beer
| that is, it would be so. if we had never
known any other way of talking Rela-
| tive pronOuns are retained, but their
number reduced. 1t is the same with
definite and indefinite pronouns. The
| former have number, and like the article
the, - indicate the number of the noun
which follows; Examples, This day, lala-
do sisol; these days, la ladosi sisol
! Space does not permit in this brief ar
! ticle thorough exposition of Cosmo-
! langue grammar, as developed up to date
| Enough, however, has been given to show
the genius of the language and to con
| vince the patient investigator that the
! doctor is not crank; that he has at least
laid hold of an idea whose possibilities
are not TO be easily measured. Whether
it can ever be made to satisfactorily fill
the long standing need of universal
| language, OF course remains to be seen.
AS a meansof oral and written com
mupicatiOn, however. it has long been out
of the lnickerbOckers of theory and every
day goes strutting proudly about the
home of its sponsor in the long pants of
demonstrated fact. The doctor's family
consists of himself, wife and three chill
dren ranging from to 5 years of age
| They all speak Cosmolangue, or, as thew
invariably call it among themselves
Misollamila The baby, bright eyed
chubby boy of 4, does all his prattliug in
that nCwfangled tongue. He can speak
scarcely any English, only n few words
picked up from tho servants. His
parents and little sisters make it rule
/ never 10 SPEAK 10 nm IN English
Another rule of family is to
always speak Cosmo!angue while at ia
bic. The only exception permitted is
when strangers are present. but at such
times the children have their meals
served in another room. This precaution
is observed by the doctor in order to pre-
vent any set back to their Cosmo!angue
attainments which tho children might
sustain by hearing English at a time and
in place which they are accustomed to
associate with Cosmolangue In other
words they have contracted the habit of
speaking COsmoiungue while at table, and
the doctor does not wish them to get
broken of 1t. He contends that speaking
language other than ones vernacular is
habit which may be acquired When
the family seat themselves ut table they
drop English instinctively, and converse
in Cosmolauguc.
1t is remarkable how fluently they can
talk the picturesque tongue when they
feel in a loquacious mood, and with only
about 600 as their Joint vocabulary. The
children haven't near that number, but
this fact does not prevent them at times
from being veritable little chatter boxes.
Six hundred is the number of common
words which the doctor has constructed,