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ONE LANGUAGE FOR ALL PEOPLE
- declaration of the Grossman Club -
If you are fed up with the divided world and the problem of multilingual
communication join the Grossman Club.
To become a member of the club you only have to declare your wish for
obeying the VIII commandments of membership.
Members of the Grossman Club have no doubts that the communication in
the future borderless world will be based on one language only and that
this fact will allow to save enormous costs of translation, training,
misunderstanding and prejudice the mankind has to pay for its
multilinguality.
Members of the club declare to obey the following VIII commandments:
I - UNITY - To avoid rivalrly between languages, members of the
Grossman Club avail of the widespread usage of English in the
$ global communication. They consider English as the international
language for the present and only decisions at the highest level
(e.g. United Nations) could change this choice.
II - NONFINANCING - to accelerate the transition to unilingual
community, all sources of finance that support noninternational
languages have to be dried up. In consequence, members of the
Grossman Club do not appropriate their incomes to buy books,
newspapers, records, video casettes, computer media etc. that use
noninternational languages.
III - NONPROLIFERATION - members of the Grossman Club use only the
international language in their publications, public appearances,
artistic output etc.
IV - NONPROPAGATION - to cut off the propagation of the present,
multilingual status quo to the next generation, members of the
Grossman Club bring up their children in the international
language as the first language.
V - PROMOTION - members of the Grossman Club declare to enroll two
new members within two months after their own admission.
They spare no efforts trying to change the view of other persons
on the question of multilinguality.
VI - REHABITUATION - members of the Grossman Club try to change
their own and others' linguistic habits. This amounts to using
the international language in their daily conversations,
personal notes, private and possibly official correspondence etc.
VII - SELF-IMPROVEMENT - a newly admitted member of the Grossman
Club does not have to have a command of the international
language. However, all members are obliged to constantly
improve their linguistic skills. This must counteract the
harmful conviction that a genuine linguistic education may last
any shorter than the whole life of an individual or that
truly deep interpersonal communication is possible without
painstaking efforts to perfect of one's language skills.
VIII - CONCILIATION - realization of all the aforementioned
commandments is potentially dangerous especially when it has
to be pursued on a highly bigoted, irrational or nationalistic
ground. Therefore members of the Grossman Club are always
sensitive to feelings and reactions of other people and do not
allow the struggle for unity to create new divisions.
The GROSSMAN CLUB idea was born in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984.
WE ACT FOR PEACE AND HARMONY FOR THE WHOLE MANKIND!