I know that this was not the title of the original thread, but since
I don't remember what it was, I invented another. Les pido que me
disculpen.
I have shared with my advanced undergraduate world history class the
Wallerstein letter and some of the following discussion. One of the
students has just posted to the course on-line discussion list the
following message. Does anyone know anything about this League
project and about its fate? Thanks for any help provided.
Jack Owens, Idaho State University <owenjack@fs.isu.edu>
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To: Members of SPEMP-L
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:26:46 -0600, MDT
Subject: global scholarly communication
Reply-to: owenjack@fs.isu.edu
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Robert Schlader wrote:
I remember watching a documentary about the League of Nations once
where the members tried to form a new international language by
combining the common parts of every member state's language into a
single language. They used it for a while and then discarded it
because no one wanted to learn it. When the U.N. was formed after
WWII, there was no attempt to bring back the "common" language created
for the League of Nations. Why is it that scholars don't use that
language for global communication? If language is such a problem, and
someone found a common answer to that problem, why not use it? Just
wondering if you could shed some light on this for me.