| 单词 |
Novial |
| 释义 |
Novial|ˈnəʊvɪəl|
[See quot. 19281.]
Name of an artificial language created by Otto Jespersen in 1928 for use as an international auxiliary language. Hence ˈNovialist, a speaker of Novial; an advocate of Novial.
1928O. Jespersen International Language i. 52 As such a scheme must have a name, I have called it NOVIAL = Nov(new) I.A.L., where I.A.L. stands for International Auxiliary Language. Ibid. ii. 67 In Novial..we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken. Ibid. 137 N[ovial] therefore adopts both suffixes, but Novialists need not commit to memory which words take one and which the other ending. 1930S.P.E. Tract xxxiv. 462 Novial will be suspiciously easy; keen Novialists will rattle it off together in the family circle. 1943F. Bodmer Loom of Language xi. 471 Novial departs from English usage in one particular. The dictionary form does the work of our past participle in compound past tenses. 1947H. Jacob Planned Auxiliary Lang. iv. 83 Jespersen's Novial has many features which are advocated by the naturalistic school of interlinguists, the use of auxiliary verbs, the revised system of spelling, a certain number of flexional elements in indirect derivation, the abolition of so-called pleonastic endings, the plural form in -s. 1973Trans. Philol. Soc. 1972 16 This work extended over many years and led eventually to the invention of his own auxiliary language, Novial. .. He came to think, later on, that he could have put that time to better use. |
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