The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-06
Subject ArOuSeS Considerable
Discussion Among French
men of Learning.
French IS SECOND CHOICE
Germans, Knowing Their Language
Was inadequate as World Tongue,
Boosted Artificial Languages,
Such as Esperanto.
BY LLOYD ALLEN.
CWesteTn Newspaper Union Stan Cor
respondent)


OF the future-with French as a close
second choice and with German run
ming a poor third.
This discussion of "world Ian
guage'' which is occupying consider
able attention around Paris. reveals
among other things a strange chapter
OF German duplicity and trickery. 1t
now seems certain that the Germans,
knowing the German language was in
adequate as world tongue, tried their
best to get the world to think favora-
bly, Of certain "cooked-up" languages
mHde to order things as it were, in or
der to prevent French or English from
being considered as the legitimate
world !cHgIugeS. s~~- --.-
These artificial tongues, such as Es-
peranto, which was probably the best
known to them, IN America at least,
were fairly numerous and each one
was given some Sort of an odd name.
They were called Esperanto, lido, Novo-
Latin and several other queer sound
ny names. Naturally enough there were
few H2""l@ in nearly every country
that took up these tongues and learn
ed them. But at best the languages
We're. and are fads, and are unequal
TO the great task assigned theTli--the
task Of becoming a world tongue.
An International Language.
Paul Mieille, French scholar a col
lege professor who holds the chair of
English at the Lycee and who is we'll
known promoter Of international edu-
cation, is authority for the foregoing
remarks anent Esperanto and Ger
man. His brochure on the sub
ject of world language has attracted
considerable attention in France and
England recently.
While some political economists are
talking about the establishment Of an
international currency that will be
worth it's face value all over the world,
and while others are talkin& of kind
of international governm that will
prevent future wars. of Irrational
control of the drug traffic several
jmore ''tinterGationalizeds =, In
cbldingi International the
Frenchmen of learning ssing
the international langJL e fu-
ture. And they adj 2Sbdestly
enough, that English will probably be
the favorite as a world tongue, be-
cause English first Of alll is the best
known and most widely GnOken Ian
guage of business and mercantile tran
sactions in the world today.
Acknowledging that English is bound
to he the favorite the French profess
sorS claim their own language will nat
urally take second place in preference
to German.
Possibly the Germans some years
foresaw the coming popularity of
fish and French and the consequent
1g of the German language into
lace in the race, because it was
he war even that the "kultur
n for popularizng Esperanto
, +, 4 the other artificial lam
5a' 4. according TO Mieille.
40 an h and French.
IS starte NIieille's idea and the
EnsIiA noted French and
lofty. il is 1T the world needs
ON of other s future welfare
ish scholars tn
languages for y of speculation
,r,ish and French' ing univer-
,,uo there was a l0t ITO. we had
. voars ago about mo world of
tonoue. such as EsperM mpletely
living languages Ill III" is real
: the two tongues thac 70 lam
= Oh requirements. There W.
70 need for lh>en'' 'al
hos been a kind of ono
~ of the idea that hhgilsn ." -.
hal, he the world languages " &,
in the fact that proceeolhs'
- conference have been con
hose two languages inc
: been cumbersome 1t -
baen possible for prac-
he delegates to unoei-
= that takes place III -
h making. 8
,e of educators pro
f making English
mon international
,e conference, OF
to perpetuate
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