Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-03
Differences in Language
Among the Forty Odd Ma
tons Represented 0bStruCt
Conduct of Business,
3 TRANSACTIONS OF
ADDRESSES REQUIRED
Human Race Must Find a
Common Tongue for Its
International Transactions
in Order to Save Time,
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
Especial Cable to Morning J0urnaD
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque Journnil

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the league OF nations Is mouerh
Babel. Differences in language
o,,,orr tho forty odd nations rep-
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reseii'eu opa'' ~ ~ ,saoo,
business. diplomatic coiilei eiiNe'
used to be conducted IN trench'
but that idea belonged to the "old |
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not ohiy lliaue 80 W opHSo' nv con,ing min m nf
, put " wassH sss;,,I11ooy,' t,,,lo witb the old
tlle ne" ~, ma, Sir,o,,ot .nd bis
SCtioHt Sf,1Il, It.'a,aot. ~ tho discard has
olllclai ti, leiiIii AZ 'iao o,Faroncas IN
ilauo ln.oi t ,lu,tD,ai ,,tyt.'-
su1ieLdo4y '1,n'a,io' ,nao 90 ,o+;ons with |
lahe & 'ii9 ieaS ti 10 IA its tyentv
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aus uasv9' o0,iio ,oio,to " dooidas to
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@ aut'i eas .lie as'itp Iitbr,o,,ion ~ ~, Neo-
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Hon.e ioni ~ nSorstand oil three Ian
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as tiie oilcIot oiIiVl,ia io g. '"ts Eiist ris
~ 10 uSeless u aslla'e ~ - Ioa
IHere are 700 many Jea'ouS 't
perdhto II mas at teas' tiio az
vantage tiiaI none VI 'le uipioli.sts
are 1amlllar win u as hatlVe
tongue, anu thuS al Wouiu 9tai
from scratch. r, ~. IT,,
bue II Is 10 pe leaIeu t''at my
won l. mol at any rate as lohs as
ldo continues 10 enter couH'et
clalm'
Yet II the politlcal Worlu Is 10
cease Wasting lts own tlihe anu tia'
OF people VINO nave something pet
ter TO 40 than llsten 10 endlessiy
duplicated chatter' the human race
must IND a common language lor
It's international TRANSACTIONS.
Language MUST &c Simple.
The language CHOSEN must 1ul-
fill certain conditions. 1t must be
simple, easily learned. 1t must be
unlversal--not based on local or
national issues. 1t must be beau
tiful. Nobody can imagine anything
less satisfactory than political
speeches or speeches that failed to
please the hearer or reader and
lull his doubts to sleep.
Facetitious persons make sug-
gestions that may seem absurd.
One suggests the language of the
flowers" This has the advant&se
OF being easily picked up, as hardly
week passes that Dolly Dimples
IN her column of advice to the love-
SICK doesn't give complete gram
mar and dictionary OF it. Snake
speare makes Ophelia tell us some
thing about 1t, too. Diplomacy
could readily make use of all the
flowers as substitutes for its pres
ent verbal flowers of speech-aIl
except, perhaps, pansies that for
thought. Or course flowers have
a rival-the postage stamp. Placed
right side up in the upper right
hand corner OF the envelope II
means Il hope this letter will
reach YOU A tWo-cent stamp on
a letter to friend in Europe signi-
fies You are richer than am,
and so the variations are infinite,
No Reason for Rivalry.
There Is no reason, however, why
there should be any rivalry be-
tween these two methods OF COM
munication. They both could be
adopted and would supplement
each other. II Lloyd-George sent
M. BRAND letter with one franc
and 10 postage due, 1t would mean
Gerfnany VIII pay
If BRAND replied by sending the
British premier a sprig OF poison
IVY the interpretation would be Il
en-, you IKE tnls clinging Flne.'
cactus pad would mean, i nope