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The Loom of Language

planning and the work of men like Ogden will not have been for nothing.
Ogden's principle of word-economy- must influence the design of any
satisfactory artificial language of the future. Some features of the later
interlanguageSj such as Jespersen's and Peano's, will inevitably influence

the teaching of Anglo-American,, if it is destined to be the auxiliary
language of the whole world.

FURTHER READING
COUTURAT Histoire de la langue universelle.
GUERAKD A Short History of the International Language
Movement.
JESPERSEN An International Language.
LOCKHART Word Economy.
OGDEN Basic English versus the Artificial Languages.
PANKHURST Delphos or the Future of Language.