A conference of linguistic experts from the various universities in the United States has been summoned to consider the advisability and practicability of establishing a universal language for the purpose of international communication by wireless. Professor Sir Israel Gollancz, of London University, in an interview subsequently, said that he did not think it was possible to establish a universal language, "Yien might create. a fictitious commercial language," he said, "but I do not believe in any international language becoming a living force unless it is one of the living languages, such as English or French, or possibly even Latin—if living force could be given to it again. You might create a language for the elements of commerce, but I do not think it would even be useful for the science of commerce."
Mr,. Godfrey Isaacs, managing dirsetor of Marconi Wireless, also expressed doubt as to the establishment of a universal language as the result of the development of wireless telephony. He thinks in regard to Esperanto that it is exceedingly improbable, "but at the same time,' he addedy "we are keeping in view, in connexion with the scheme now under consideration for the estanlishment of wireless broadcasting stations, the possibility of teaching languages, by wireless telephony. I think this will be a highly important part of the educational section of our broadcasting programmes, and it will in time to come supersede the use of gramophone records for this purpose. One foresees the engagement of eminent professors of languages for the purpose of wireless tuition."
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