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- ONE LANGUAGE FOR ALL PEOPLE
- - declaration of the Grossman Club -
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- 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.
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- The GROSSMAN CLUB idea was born in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984.
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- WE ACT FOR PEACE AND HARMONY FOR THE WHOLE MANKIND!