INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

. . . (1) You imply that Interlingua is a computer of Esperanto. (2) You imply that the Interlingua is an aspirant to the rank of the Universal language.

The facts of the matter are (1) that Esperanto is carried by an ideology which is inimical to many things I and my fellow promoters of Interlingua hold sacred, and (2) that I consider the whole idea of a universal auxiliary language impractical and undesirable, including even the electronic version envisaged by Professor Whatmough.

When you have a document to which educated speakers of various languages should have access, Interlingua comes in as a handy tool. That is all. Everything else I have ever written or said on the subject represents an effort to explain to myself and to others why it is that Interlingua works well when it is thus used. In imagine additional availability has been found useful. I imagine additional journals in medicine and other disciplines will adopt Interlingua summaries within the coming years. Alexander Gode