UNIFORM TYPE.
EASIER FOREIGN PRINTING. Plans for a linguistic "housecleaning" to simplify and make cheaper the mechanical setting of type for 40 of the languages of Europe and Asia were announced recently by Dr. Harold H. Bender, professor of Indo-Germanic philology in Princeton University, who was aided in his work by 99 scholars in America and abroad. It is provided by Dr. Bender's plan to eliminate some character's and simplify others in the alphabets of each country, so that stock letters can be maintained for the printing of these languages. The innovations are expected to affect the future of printing radically, for now it will be possible to publish many scholarly works which were formerly considered too expensive. Professor Bender's recommendations cover all the Scandinavian, Romance and continental Germanic languages and most of the Balto-Slavic, as well as Albanian, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian and Welsh in Europe, Urdu in India and Tagalog in the Philippine Islands.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 5
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