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132 fix on the language that was to be adopted. Delegates met to discuss this subject, and debated it for six months, but could not come to an agreement. At last, it was resolved that no existing language, taken as a whole, was suitable. It was determined therefore to create a new one; and seeing that the English speaking people at this date were the most numerous, it was determined to call it modern English.

"As you may imagine the formation of a new language was no small task. Delegates from all nations met, and discussed every word in the new vocabulary. It took them over twenty years to get this completed. The system followed was to select the most expressive words from all known languages, making it a rule to have a separate word for everything, allowing no two words to have the same meaning or more than one meaning.

"As it was not possible to introduce a new language without much preparation and time, it was agreed that twenty years should be allowed