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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 3

With so ‘much talk about Basic English, it seems a little odd that one one brought uo the subject of an alternative, even more radically ‘’based,” which was mooted in 1936, a British exchange states. It was called the Sun Language, and the theory under-

lying it was that “every word in every language may be reduced to a formula based on the sounds used by primitive man when he began to express his feelings in speech.” The rather prominent snag in this is, of course, that not even the most expert and erudite of philologists is in a position to say just what were the sounds first used by primitive man. And even when found they might just conceivably prove inadequate to explain, for example, the Einstein Theory or the impenetrability of matter.