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a Commission could re-examine the language and bring it up 

 to date. 



Needless to state, each radicle would have its significance 

 definitely determined and retain it until formally altered. 



5. Each primary word should be automatically capable of 

 being employed, in a duly modified form, as arty part of speech. 

 Here is a paradigm: Noun: internment, interner, internress, in- 

 ternee (also special words for that which interns and that which 

 is interned general, masculine, and feminine; also selected 

 words for objects and persons professionally or frequently 

 interning or being interned, as filter or explorer), internability, 

 internness, internivity, internity, internage, internium, internism, 

 internation, etc.; verb: to intern, interned, interning (also 

 internify, internesce, etc.); adjective: internal (internal, intern- 

 able, internive, etc.), internative, interniform, interniferous, etc.; 

 adverb: internally (also internerally, etc.). Naturally only one 

 modification would exist for each form of speech: a, for instance, 

 as the sole adjectival form, and we should say, for instance, 

 I, thou, he, we, you, they, have. Similarly, the free and common 

 use of all parts of speech and of all modifications would be 

 encouraged, in accordance with methodological requirements. 

 Tenses would, of course, be formed by a single unmodifiable 

 postfix for each tense. Each modification would exhibit its 

 signification in the letters whereof it is composed e.g., inter- 

 nal-like. 



6. Four hundred prefixes and as many postfixes could be 

 created to express the modifications which root words are 

 capable of. A word would be known to have a prefix if it 

 commenced with a consonant, and recognised as having a post- 

 fix if a w occurred therein, all letters before a y being a part 

 of prefixes and all letters after the w of postfixes. Modifiers 

 representing the categories and the principal human depart- 

 ments health, morals, intelligence, beauty, economics, politics, 

 happiness would, of course, be introduced, and at once enrich 

 and simplify the vocabulary. Already such prefixes as mis 

 (misunderstand) and mal (maltreat), for instance, express in- 

 tellectual and moral deficiencies respectively, and what is there- 

 fore needed is a full development of present right tendencies 

 in language. Nor should various other forms of prefixes be 

 forgotten, as, for instance, negative: in(curable); privative: 

 a(chromatic) ; opposite: un(lock); separation: disjointed); and 

 so forth. These modifiers would retain their form and meaning 

 integrally in all circumstances, and be applied, as required, to 

 all root words and their combinations, as unindecomposability. 

 It would be understood that the letters constituting the prefixes 

 would be one in form and meaning with the radicles whence 

 they are derived. 



Similarly nouns would be freely joined, as window frame, 

 detention house, child cruelty prevention association (instead 



