LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

in many ways they resemble. I say Italian, not French, not merely for
political reasons. French is hell to pronounce. You have to screw up your
nose for the nasals. Apart from the political, Italian is spoken like she is
writ. No monkey business. Every letter is pronounced in the same way
wherever it occurs. The only apparent exception is the c and ch before a
and o. Before a and o, c is hard and before i and e it is soft. The hard
sound is written ch before i and e. But the spelling is uniform and
follows in all cases and there are no— —.
I would suggest that the Japanese sign for the syllables, for the sound of
the syllables, be transliterated to the Roman alphabet when they
accompany the ideogram. Let me explain. The written Chinese is
common in both Japan and China. All those written signs are the same
for Japan and all China. Anyone who reads them in one place knows
what they mean in another. It is the common tongue or common written
tongue for all those millions.
As English, with its variants is common to England, and the United
States, and is a lingua franca for India. I take into account distribution.
The number of people who already know each of the languages
mentioned. It is as easy to learn Italian as to learn Esperanto. It does not
cut the fingers and toes off any one’s thought. And that can be borne out
by anyone of the hundred Englishmen who have studied with Professor
Morelli. It is high time you looked into his methods. But apart from
Morelli’s methods, based on words almost identical in the two languages
or at least perfectly recognizable as from English to Italian or from
Italian to English, Italian is the simplest descendent from Latin.
Latin, the universal stronghold of European snobs for nearly 2000 years.
Italian is clearer than Latin, you might say maturer than Latin. They
boasted— —translated— —using fewer words in his Italian version than
are used in the Latin original. Intelligent auditors can go on with his talk
— —. The intelligent auditor ought to be able to think of objections and
answer them. The Brain Trust, if it weren’t utterly frivolous, would take