tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144412872099377367.post8892033051845095212..comments2024-03-12T17:35:28.786-06:00Comments on South Fork Companion: Army Doctor M. W. Wood and Spotted Fever Research [otd 06/03]Revue Guruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925903211294652386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144412872099377367.post-25145808820294891152011-06-03T10:20:36.629-06:002011-06-03T10:20:36.629-06:00The Wood biography that mentions Volapük noted tha...The Wood biography that mentions Volapük noted that it "preceded Esparanto by eight years." The bio also claimed that Wood's dictionary was "the standard work in the United States" on the language.<br />Wood spent a long time on duty in the American West, where he would have encountered many Indian tribes with mutually-unintelligible languages. Perhaps he saw Volapük as a better common language for them. English can be difficult for non-native speakers to learn ... and it was, after all, the language of "the enemy." (It's always fun to speculate about history.)Revue Guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925903211294652386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144412872099377367.post-42469431190558196542011-06-03T09:46:30.685-06:002011-06-03T09:46:30.685-06:00Fascinating. Wood probably worked on Volapuk rathe...Fascinating. Wood probably worked on Volapuk rather than Esperanto because the latter had probably nopt reached the U.S.A. in 1889.Bill Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12810992711601197508noreply@blogger.com