• The European languages are members of the same family.
• Their separate existence is a myth.
• For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
• The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words.
• Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators.
• To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words.
• If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages.
• The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages.
  • It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental.
  • To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is.
  • The European languages are members of the same family.
  • Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
• The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words.
• Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators.