A Suggested Language.
Writing in the Wurld, Mr G. K. Chester on says:—“l cannot see why, if we must have a universal language, it need be a hash of the healthy tongues that exist. Why should it have anything to do with the tongue at all ? To produce grunts and gurgles out of one’s inside is not the way of signalling to another creature. Why should not the cultured Frenchman and the the. learned German converse by animated movements of the leg? Why should they not take a series of flags from their trousers’ pockets and wave them, after the manner of soldiers and sailors? Why should they not make faces, or let off fireworks, or talk in the language of flowers, like two lovers ? But they Deed not spoil living things, or force us to think of a poem as beginning Tearoj, Idle Tearoj, or anything of that kind."
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Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1904, Page 3
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150A Suggested Language. Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1904, Page 3
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