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Interlingua Is Doomed - Online Essay

Interlingua Is Doomed

The dream of Interlingua-a common language that all the people of the
world speak-has long existed in many peoples minds. They and their
organizations have for many years tried to push this through, but the odds
are still against them.
The benefits of a common language on the planet are obvious, language
barriers would no longer exist, books and newspapers could be printed in a
single international edition distributed worldwide. In order to achieve
this however there are plenty of obstacles along the way. The first
question, which already throws us into a major snag, is which language do
we choose? To many of us English is the obvious answer, since its
expansion is enormous an it is the ...

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agree on
anything, but let us just suppose that the world was to reform and decide
to teach its citizens an all new language. The nations that would learn it
the quickest would of course be the industrialized countries with the
resources for good public education, incidentally the very nations that
know and are learning, the international business language-English

An inevitable fact is that the English language is already in the process
of taking over the world through film, TV, popular music not to mention
the Internet. Even more important, English being the international
business language there is a lot of money invested in it and it therefore
has the full support of the commercial industry and right or wrong, money
rules this world!

Were we still to miraculously manage to teach the whole planet the very
same language, another problem would become painfully evident; maintaining
it. All languages form local dialects, new words and expressions,
especially in isolated and remote ...

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