Five scientists and linguists, among them the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald and the philologist Otto Jespersen, argue that science needs a neutral auxiliary language. Steering clear of the fanatics of Volapük and Esperanto, they set out what such a language must be, examine the Ido reform, and show how it could handle technical words.
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