Comparing Volapük with Idiom Neutral, even this brief specimen is enough to show the main line of improvement.
Dictionaries of Idiom Neutral have been published in English (in America), German, and Dutch; but the language hardly seems to be in use except among the members of the academy.
The reader may be interested to compare for himself specimens of Volapük, Idiom Neutral (its lineal descendant), and Esperanto.
It had undergone a complete transformation, and was now called Idiom Neutral.
The chief of these are: Idiom Neutral; Pan-Roman or Universal, by Dr.
On the other hand, many words in Idiom Neutral present a mutilated appearance to the eye, and, what is a much greater sin in an international language, offer grave difficulties of pronunciation to speakers of many nations.
This is briefly narrated in the next chapter, under the name of Idiom Neutral.
The famous linguistic club of Nuremberg is remarkable for having gone through the evolution from Volapük to Idiom Neutral viâ Esperanto!
The young idiot was the same young man who had brought the difficult French idiom to Krakatoa, while Mr. Fenwick was still without an anchorage of his own.
French idiom was evidently unfamiliar in the neighbourhood, for the young gentleman from the office jumped at the opportunity.
Perhaps a similar apology should be made here; but the discriminating reader does not need to be told that it would be impossible to separate these stories from the idiom in which they have been recited for generations.
Yes, indeed; the idiom was undoubtedly his happiest hit.
Of the vernacular and favorite idiom of William the Conqueror, (A.
Footnote 5: These provinces of the Greek idiom and empire are assigned to the Bulgarian kingdom in the dispute of ecclesiastical jurisdiction between the patriarchs of Rome and Constantinople, (Baronius, Annal.
The same author has marked the separate idiom of the Hungarians.
They insulted the alien of the East who had renounced the dress and idiom of Romans; and their reasonable practice will justify the frequent appellation of Greeks.
Footnote 42: The Norman writers and editors most conversant with their own idiom interpret Guiscard or Wiscard, by Callidus, a cunning man.
A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
In Britain, the nativeidiom was nowhere superseded by the Roman, though the island was held in subjection upwards of three centuries.
For example, the French language is likely to be the permanent idiom of the negro people of St. Domingo, though the latter are principally of African descent.
Few of the audience could resist a laugh at the quaint idiom of the Right Worshipful, and even the Judge's severe features for a moment relaxed into a half smile.
It is neither by rejecting as foreign whatever expressions cannot be found in the writers under the Austrian dynasty, nor by disfiguring our idiom with Gallicisms, that we can expect to shape it to our present wants and fashions.
Footnote 83: A popularidiom and highly expressive, contrasting the upright bearing of the self-satisfied man with the slouch of the miserable and the skirt-trailing of the woman in grief.
French works, who disfigured the idiom by forming a French construction with native words.
The translation of the Book of Mormon is English in idiom, and the idiom of the time and locality where it was produced, as all must know who read it, and especially those who have read the first edition of it.
Igorotes and Ilongotes languages of Luzon, as also the idiom used by the natives of the Marianne Archipelago, together with a short treatise on the Marianne group written in Spanish by a missionary.
There is scarcely an English idiom which Milton has not violated, or a foreign one which he has not borrowed.
He lays it down for a rule of indefinite application, that the Saxon part of our English idiom is to be favored at the expense of that part which has so happily coalesced with the language from the Latin or Greek.
Who was it had asked her the same question, in another idiomever so long ago?
I obeyed, rendering all that she had said into the Zulu idiom as best I could.
She was hearing the boorish laugh and the slovenly idiom to-day, when yesterday she had heard the mirth of culture and the phrase of decorum.
When she spoke, which she promptly did, her native idiom forgot the slight garb of change that marriage and nicer association had lent it, and stood forth, stripped by agitation, in graceless nudity.
But they constantly withstand even a generous parser, even one who is to the fullest extent ready to allow for idiom and individuality.
There are indeed a few Lamaseries where the study of the Tartarian idiom receives some slight attention, and where they sometimes recite Mongol prayers, but these are always a translation of Thibetian books.
The habit, so widely extended amongst us, of reading this language almost from infancy, gives us a greater familiarity with their idiom than he is aware of.
None should pretend to examine, or at any rate to discuss critically, the niceties of idiomin a language that is not native to them.
That good things can be said in no other idiom with equal grace, is a fact that can neither be controverted nor more firmly established than it is already.
In our modern days, when many people spend the greater portion of their time in travelling, and all nationalities continually mingle together, such an idiom was created almost spontaneously.
On our entering the waiting-room, I had already noticed that all the passengers conversed with one another in the same tongue, in a dialect of which I certainly recognised a word or two, but yet a foreign idiom to me.
This idiom or position of words is perfect in Italian which admits of many transpositions; but in English syntax and idiom these phrases mean 1.
This is his excuse for offering to the public a third translation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such "elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the idiom of the language did invite.
These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great similarity that idiom has to our early language; and they, doubtless, influenced much our own early versions.
