WHAT IS THE IDEA OF AN INTERNATIONAL AUXILIARY, AND WHY?

• The world is shrinking, and in a previous age foreignors were miles and days away.
• Now, with modern communications - especially the Internet - anyone on the globe could be only two seconds away.
• As a civilisation we have outgrown the restrictions placed on us by the often mutually exclusive national languages.
• We now have the ability to send signal to anywhere on the planet; but, because of the existence of non-compatable national languages, there is no guarantee that the signal will be meaningful when recieved.
• It is time for human ingenuity to come up with an effective solution to this problem: the tecnological fix is being tried - at great expense; and the traditional altenative is costly translation and interpretation.
• If a low-cost solution, that has no technological overhead, can be found, then it deserves to be researched by our best brains. This is the IAL hypothesis.
• Formerly a school student learnt one, or more, foreign languages, and this, as well as being a sign of his education, was his ticket to the known world.
• Now, the situation is totally out of hand, with the number of national languages in use over a thousand. To service the newer populations coming into the global economy and culture, the emerging indiginous peoples, translation and translating programs just cannot keep up.
• Regional Auxiliary Languages have been proposed for Asia, Europe and Africa, but these are only partial solutions to the total problem, and hardly Global solutions.
• The selection of the most suitable language to be taught in all schools - as the Second Language for the world - is not a theoretical difficulty, but it is opposed for psychological and cultural reasons.
• Three quarters of a century ago the League of Nations voted on a resolution to adopt Esperanto as the IAL: while the vote was lost then, perhaps it is time for civilisation builders to try again ... but with proper comparative research prior to a decision, this time.
• Once one language has been chosen to serve as the IAL, then the illiterate masses can gain an education through the new medium; and, thinkers will have the means of communing with other like minds anywhere on the planet. Are we ready for World Renaissance?

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