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En Garde, whole no. 7, September 1943
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page 4. claimed, "Rush this man to the Infirmary, at once!" And so it went on. Everytime the feeling of disgust engendered by horrible thing had built up to the point where the audience was about to be sick all over the place, there would be a scene of the Flag proudly waving in the breeze, or a column of Marines bravely marching down the street. This was apparently calculated to induce such a wave of patriotic emotion that the audience would forget their nausea. This is a grade Zn [typing a bit messed up here] pictuee, and should be avoided at all costs lest you never again be able to enjoy a movie. RAY: There is too, too much truth in this. But we shall only say at this time that steps are even now being taken to do something definite about the NFFF. Whether the result will be revival, dissolution, or something in between, all members will be informed in the very near future. ADULUX BESKAN: We give up. HORIZONS: Glancing Behind Us was thoroughly enjoyed. In fact, one small bit, your naive query about short-arm inspection, sent us completely into hysterics. As you have doubtless already been informed on the subject, we'll refrain from answering here. You probably feel rather chagrinned about the whole thing, but don't let it get you. We all pull things like that sometime. Article on Debabelization was very interesting. But we wonder whether it shouldn't be determined first just what the purpose of this language is to be. Is it merely to facilitate elementary understanding between people of various nationalities? If so Basic English might serve. Or is it to be a Universal language in the full sense of the word? if the latter, it seems to us that its similarity to existing languages is beside the point. What we'd like to see is an auxiliary tongue that could be fully as expressive and beautiful as any of today. It should be constructed according to hard and fast rules with no exceptions, and the number of rules should be a few as possible. While it should be simplified as compared to our present tongues, it should primarily be completely logical. As nearly as possible, each word should give one the feeling that that word alone fitted the object, action, or etc. that it represented. In constructing such a language it might be necessary, or at least just as well, to begin with some existant root words, but arbitrary roots should not be shunned. Whenever possible, words could and should of themselves suggest something of what they stand for. For example, the names of the chemical elements should embody some part of the word for the number corresponding to their atomic number. Where color, form, time, etc. are predominant characteristics, they can similarly be suggested when designing a word. Thus in learning comparitively few elementary words one has partially learned many, many more....... As we get warmed to our subject so many ideas on this topic come boiling into our think-tank, that realize we better stop now. But if we have succeeded in suggesting some of the possibilities of constructing such a language, let's hear your reactions. It occurs to us that Fandom could build and adopt such a language of the future. Among our other resemblances to a nation (as pointed out by Speer) we could have our own language instead of merely an idiom. Of course we hear Morojo butting in with words about Esperanto, but..... well, it would be fun. Wouldn't it?
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page 4. claimed, "Rush this man to the Infirmary, at once!" And so it went on. Everytime the feeling of disgust engendered by horrible thing had built up to the point where the audience was about to be sick all over the place, there would be a scene of the Flag proudly waving in the breeze, or a column of Marines bravely marching down the street. This was apparently calculated to induce such a wave of patriotic emotion that the audience would forget their nausea. This is a grade Zn [typing a bit messed up here] pictuee, and should be avoided at all costs lest you never again be able to enjoy a movie. RAY: There is too, too much truth in this. But we shall only say at this time that steps are even now being taken to do something definite about the NFFF. Whether the result will be revival, dissolution, or something in between, all members will be informed in the very near future. ADULUX BESKAN: We give up. HORIZONS: Glancing Behind Us was thoroughly enjoyed. In fact, one small bit, your naive query about short-arm inspection, sent us completely into hysterics. As you have doubtless already been informed on the subject, we'll refrain from answering here. You probably feel rather chagrinned about the whole thing, but don't let it get you. We all pull things like that sometime. Article on Debabelization was very interesting. But we wonder whether it shouldn't be determined first just what the purpose of this language is to be. Is it merely to facilitate elementary understanding between people of various nationalities? If so Basic English might serve. Or is it to be a Universal language in the full sense of the word? if the latter, it seems to us that its similarity to existing languages is beside the point. What we'd like to see is an auxiliary tongue that could be fully as expressive and beautiful as any of today. It should be constructed according to hard and fast rules with no exceptions, and the number of rules should be a few as possible. While it should be simplified as compared to our present tongues, it should primarily be completely logical. As nearly as possible, each word should give one the feeling that that word alone fitted the object, action, or etc. that it represented. In constructing such a language it might be necessary, or at least just as well, to begin with some existant root words, but arbitrary roots should not be shunned. Whenever possible, words could and should of themselves suggest something of what they stand for. For example, the names of the chemical elements should embody some part of the word for the number corresponding to their atomic number. Where color, form, time, etc. are predominant characteristics, they can similarly be suggested when designing a word. Thus in learning comparitively few elementary words one has partially learned many, many more....... As we get warmed to our subject so many ideas on this topic come boiling into our think-tank, that realize we better stop now. But if we have succeeded in suggesting some of the possibilities of constructing such a language, let's hear your reactions. It occurs to us that Fandom could build and adopt such a language of the future. Among our other resemblances to a nation (as pointed out by Speer) we could have our own language instead of merely an idiom. Of course we hear Morojo butting in with words about Esperanto, but..... well, it would be fun. Wouldn't it?
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