<p>The European languages are members of the same family.</p><p>Their separate existence is a myth.</p><p>For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.</p><p>The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words.</p><p>Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators.</p><p>To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words.</p><p>If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages.</p><p>The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages.</p><p>It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental.</p><p>To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is.</p><p>The European languages are members of the</p>