National Languages Are All Huge Systems Of

Were A Language Ever Completely "grammatical" It Would Be A Perfect Engine Of Conceptual Expression. Unfortunately, Or Luckily, No Language Is Tyrannically Consistent. All Grammars Leak.

So Far As The Advocates Of A Constructed International Language Are Concerned, It Is Rather To Be Wondered At How Much In Common Their Proposals Actually Have, Both In Vocabulary And In General Spirit Of Procedure.

It Is Quite An Illusion To Imagine That One Adjusts To Reality Essentially Without The Use Of Language And That Language Is Merely An Incidental Means Of Solving Specific Problems Of Communication Or Reflection.

Nonverbal Communication Is An Elaborate Secret Code That Is Written Nowhere, Known By None, And Understood By All.

It Would, Of Course, Be Hopeless To Attempt To Crowd Into An International Language All Those Local Overtones Of Meaning Which Are So Dear To The Heart Of The Nationalist.