Conferring
Sir: With reference to the article 'How to confer' in a recent issue: the only practical way to confer, especially between different nationalities, would be by a language that has no anomalies, no idioms, but has strict rules and regulations, that make the language easy to learn and easy to speak.
The British Tourist Authority and others are 'pushing' English for the international language, and this gives the right for other nations to do the same. Each nation can say that their language is the 'only practical language' etc. This indicates that only a neutral language should be used, free from national bias and the difficulties mentioned above. This would save millions of pounds in translations, such as the £12.5 million per annum already being spent in the Community institutions!
Esperanto, a neutral invented language, fits all these conditions, and if the one year's expenses of the EEC were spent on teaching the world to speak Esperanto, all the difficulties of international understanding would be over.
Frank M. Easton Brita Asocio de Esperantistaj Fervojistoj (Association of British RailwayEsperantists) 21 Ninfield Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham
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