Lingua: An International Language for Purposes of Commerce and ScienceTrubner & Company, 1888 - 126 pages |
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... Speech ) , after but a few years of existence , numbers its students by hundreds of thousands ; and , strange to say , France , the nation which has hitherto shown itself least inclined to learn any foreign tongue , has adopted it most ...
... Speech ) , after but a few years of existence , numbers its students by hundreds of thousands ; and , strange to say , France , the nation which has hitherto shown itself least inclined to learn any foreign tongue , has adopted it most ...
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... speech ( than the Neo - Latin , or Romance languages ) . Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients , we find , on comparing the Teutonic with the Latin , or Neo - Latin or Norman - French elements in English , that the latter ...
... speech ( than the Neo - Latin , or Romance languages ) . Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients , we find , on comparing the Teutonic with the Latin , or Neo - Latin or Norman - French elements in English , that the latter ...
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... speech were preparatory . It was evident that Volapük fell far short of what a rational language should be . The vocabulary was entirely irrational . No word had any connection with the meaning arbitrarily assigned to it by Schleyer ...
... speech were preparatory . It was evident that Volapük fell far short of what a rational language should be . The vocabulary was entirely irrational . No word had any connection with the meaning arbitrarily assigned to it by Schleyer ...
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... speech seemed to labour under great difficulties . Volapük was , however , a creditable invention , and its future career would be followed with interest . Mr. George Day said that he was , besides the lecturer , the only other active ...
... speech seemed to labour under great difficulties . Volapük was , however , a creditable invention , and its future career would be followed with interest . Mr. George Day said that he was , besides the lecturer , the only other active ...
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... speech . An organism is flexible , and can develop and adapt itself to differing circumstances ; a machine , however , can only perform the definite work for which it is constructed , and hence the conditions of its efficiency are ...
... speech . An organism is flexible , and can develop and adapt itself to differing circumstances ; a machine , however , can only perform the definite work for which it is constructed , and hence the conditions of its efficiency are ...
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acido ad-infra adeo Adjectival Adjectives adopted Adverbs alio ALIQUANTUM antea article grammar at-quod become bono Cæsar Cicero circum commúni Compound DECLENSION demum dic-tum dictionary domu English es-num etsi Fléchier formed French German grammar Herr Schleyer homin i-tum INDEFINITE Inflection infra international language intra ipse Italian J'écrire-à Jugurtha kilogrammes Latin conjugations Latin words Le bonos Lingua Lexicon Lingua words LUDGATE HILL manner Max Müller meaning mercs method minimé minimo modern languages modern words modo multo NECNE nisi nunc o-ils omni ORDER OF WORDS PARTICLES paulé person plural prae prefixing PREPOSITION Price Pronouns quali quam quidam quod quum rostra saccharo saepe Schleswig scríb secund SELF-DEFINING WORDS sentence side sound spelling spelt sponté suffix super supra taken from Latin Tense thing tríbu Turenne ultra urbi usque VERB QUALITY viro Vocabulary Volapük vowel words taken writing written دو
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Page 101 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 101 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 101 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom -he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 101 - For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (24) "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 101 - Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; (26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; (27) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us ; (28) For in him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain...
Page 10 - There is, perhaps, no language so full of words evidently derived from the most distant sources as English. Every country of the globe seems to have brought some of its verbal manufactures to the intellectual market of England. Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Celtic, Saxon, Danish, French, Spanish, Italian, German — nay, even Hindustani, Malay, and Chinese words, lie mixed together in the English dictionary. On the evidence of words alone it would be impossible to classify English with any other of the established...
Page 126 - Bell. — VISIBLE SPEECH; the Science of Universal Alphabetics, or SelfInterpreting Physiological Letters, for the Writing of all Languages in one Alphabet. Illustrated by Tables, Diagrams, and Examples. By ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, FEIS, FRSA, Professor of Vocal Physiology, etc. 4to., pp. 156, cloth. 15s. Bellew. — A DICTIONARY OF THE PUKKHTO, OR PUKSHTO LANGUAGE, on a new and Improved System. With a reversed Part, or English and Pukkhto.
Page 10 - Latin origin, the majority would be no doubt on the Saxon side. The articles, pronouns, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs, all of which are of Saxon growth, occur over and over again in one and the same page. Thus, Hickes maintained that nine-tenths of the English dictionary were Saxon, because there were only three words of Latin origin in the Lord's prayer. Sharon Turner, who extended his observations over a larger field, came to the conclusion that the relation of Norman to Saxon was as four to...
Page 10 - ... home-grown Saxon terms. This may seem incredible ; and if we simply took a page of any English book, and counted therein the words of purely Saxon and Latin origin, the majority would be no doubt on the Saxon side. The articles, pronouns, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs, all of which are of Saxon growth, occur over and over again in one and the same page. Thus, Hickes maintained that nine-tenths of the English dictionary were Saxon, because there were only three words of Latin origin in the...
Page 11 - English amounts to only 13,330, against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source.* On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and treating English as a mixed language, it would have to be classified together with French, Italian, and Spanish, as one of the Romance or Neo-Latin dialects. Languages, however, though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar. Hervas was told by missionaries that...