Does the World Language Process have any additional preferences?
Only one at this early stage: an IAL Hierarchy – which from the practical viewpoint is the gradual introduction of a single IAL in stages. An IAL Hierarchy addresses the problem of universal acceptability. A median IAL, pitched somewhere between the usages of the various national languages, and between linguists and non-linguists, might purport to do this but actually discriminates against those at the extremities. Although suiting those towards the middle, it might well be regarded with suspicion as too easy by one part of the population, and with trepidation as too difficult by another part. Orwell’s “Newspeak”, probably based on his perception of Esperanto and Basic English, is an old chestnut that might be brought out by way of illustration. Orwell’s inference that an imposed IAL might be used to limit the thought and expression of speakers of more complex languages evidently struck a chord with his readers – unless it is purely coincidental, and related only to the ascendancy of t
