"Internationality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has for its own; and the only way to bring equivalents for such words into the language was to select them from all the principal languages under consideration, which means, of course, the European languages and to select these words on the principle of greatest internationality—that is to say, such verbs as to come, to do, to write, etc., or the nouns, hand, knife, water, table, etc., or adjectives, like good, bad, healthy, etc. Before he put these words into his vocabulary, ...
— Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education • Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen |
