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FLOYD HARDIN Pioneer and Promoter Pioner e Promover
of the Auxiliary Language. d’Adlinguo.
© KOPOREK ARTURO ALFANDARI, Bruxel. Printat Belgye.
© Copyright by ARTURO ALFANDARI, Brussels. Printed in Belgium.
ARTURO ALFANDARI RAPID METHOD
OF
NEO
INTERNATIONAL AUXILIARY LANGUAGE
COMPLETE COURSE GRAMMAR, EXERCISES, CONVERSATION-GUIDE PROSE READINGS AND POEMS
ENGLISH-NEO
and NEO-ENGLISH VOCABULARY
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CONTENTS
Page
To all the friends of the English Language 7
Request to all our friends 7
List of Abbreviations 8
Short Introduction to the English Edition 9
NEO Grammar in two pages 10
Part I. — GRAMMAR :
The Alphabet 12
Pronunciation 12
Variability of words 12
Stress 12
The Article 13
The Adjective 13
The Adverb 14
The Noun 14
Pronouns 14
The Verb 17
Monosyllabic Verbs 18
Neo Numeration 19
Time 22
Age 24
Table of the Principal Prepositions 24
Correlative Adjectives, Pronouns and Adverbs 25
The Name 27
Comparaison Degrees 27
Sentence Building 28
AFFIXES 28
Elision 33
Compound Words 34
Geographical Names 35
Useful Idioms 37
Some More Colloquialisms and Idiomatic Phrases 63
Proverbs 67
Part II. — ENGLISH-NEO CONVERSATION GUIDE :
First Contacts 69
The Restaurant. — The Cafeteria. — 70
Train Travel : 73
Customs 74
By Car. — By Coach. — 74
An Accident 76
At the Hotel 77
Air Travel 78
Shopping 79
At the Stationer’s. — At the Bookseller’s. — 80
At the Gentlemen’s Hair-dresser’s 81
At the Ladies’ Hair-dresser’s 82
At the Doctor’s 82
Theatre, Concerts, Movies 85
Railway, Coach and Ship Excursions 87
THE FIVE MAJOR CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES 88
The LORD’S PRAYER 89
Part III. — READING SELECTIONS :
— PROSE Page
The Pleasure of Life 90
GENESIS 92
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 94
«New York Herald Tribune ». — «Requiem » of Verdi at Paris St.
Eustache 102
A. Alfandari. — Antonio Fradeletto 104
A. — Optimism or Pessimism 104
Edmund Gosse. — Walt Whitman 106
Lytton Strachey. — Princess Charlotte of England 106
«The Times ». — Rediscovered Treasures of Prague Castle 108
t New York Herald Tribune ». — Maugham taken to hospital 110
« The Times ». — Mr. Stewart arrives in America 112
« The Observer ». — World’s Farewell to Churchill 112
«The Times ». — Fruitful or sterile politics ? 114
« The Times ». — Continental Bourses 114
«New York Herald Tribune ». — West Europe’s growth slackening 116
A. Alfandari. — « Lettre & mes amis » 116
— POETRY. (Neo version in front of every poem)
G. Apollinaire. — Le Pont Mirabeau (French) 120
Charles Baudelaire. — L’invitation au voyage (French) 120
Robert Burns. — Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (English) 122
Josep Carner. — Caneo de veil (Catalan) 124
Jean Cocteau. — Le Coeur 6ternel (French) 126
Dante. — Francesca da Rimini (Italian) 126
Dante. — Vita Nova (Italian) 128
T.S.Eliot. — The rock (English) 128
Paul Eluard. — Mon amour (French) 128
С. Flaischlen. — Lege das Ohr… (German) 130
Paul Fort. — La Ronde autour du Monde (French) 130
Guido Gezelle. — Gij badt op enen Berg (Dutch) 130
Goethe. — Wanderer’s Nachtlied (German) 130
Goethe. — Wer nie sein Brot.. (German) 132
Goethe. — Mignon (German) 132
Thomas Hardy. — In Time of « The Breaking of Nations » (English) 132
Heine. — Im wunderschonen Monat Mai (German) 134
Heine. — Lorelei (German) 134
Hugo von Hofmannsthal. — Ballade des ausseren Lebens (German) 134
Horatius. — Carpe Diem (Latin) 136
Victor Hugo. — Mes vers fuiraient… (French) 136
Victor Hugo. — La f6te chez Th6r£se (French) 136
Victor Hugo. — Extase (French) 138
John Keats. — La belle dame sans merci (English) 138
La Fontaine. — La cigale et la fourmi (French) 140
Manuel Machado. — Cantares (Spanish) 140
Lorenzo de’ Medici. — Quant’fc bella giovinezza ! (Italian) 142
Alfred de Musset. — La chanson de Fortunio (French) 142
Herbert Read. — Day’s affirmation (English) 142
Pierre Ronsard. — Pour Нё1ёпе (French) 144
Solomon. — The Song of Songs (From a French version) 144
Shakespeare. — To be or not to be (English) 146
Shakespeare. — Sonnet 71 (English) 146
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Paul Val£ry. — Le Vin Perdu (French) 148
Paul Val£ry. — Le sylphe (French) 148
Paul Verlaine. — En Prison (French) 148
Paul Verlaine. — II pleure dans mon coeur (French) 150
Paul Verlaine. — Green (French) 150
Paul Verlaine. — Colloque sentimental (French) 150
Virgilius. — Gallus (Latin) 152
Assia Werfel-Lachin. — Merci (French) 152
Walt Whitman. — Salut au Monde! (English) 154
A. — The old man’s song (original Neo) 156
A. Alfandari. — Why do you feel so liappy ? (original Neo) 158
D.S.B. — The Motto (English) 160
D.S.B. — The Task (English) 160
NEO’S OPTIONAL GENITIVE 162
ENGLISH-NEO DICTIONARY 163
NEO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. — Part I 313
Part II 393
TO ALL FRIENDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
No auxiliary language aspires to be more than a “second language” —one that is used for communication when the two mother languages differ too greatly for mutual comprehension. In each country the national language is sovereign, having nothing to fear from the rise of a “second language” such as NEO.
Far from constituting any threat to English, the auxiliary language is a positive safeguard, since it preserves the essential integrity by sheltering it from the flood of neologisms that derive from different languages, and which would reduce English to an impoverished „business Pidgin” such as that spoken in Melanesia.
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
adjective abbreviation adverb agriculture all senses
Auxiliary Language
Americanism
anatomy
architecture
in the arts
astronomy
auxiliary
Bible, biblical
biology
botany
chemistry
cinema
classical
colloquial
collective
commerce, -cial
comparative
complement
conjunction
contraction
cooking, cuisine