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A framed dialogue stages a friendly debate over an international auxiliary language, with one interlocutor defending its practicality and another expressing skepticism about realism and permanence. The defender argues that a simple auxiliary would free time otherwise spent learning several foreign tongues, complement rather than replace national languages, and remain stable because it will be used mainly as a written medium by foreigners. The critic invokes historical language evolution—Latin’s transformation into Romance tongues—and doubts that any engineered idiom can avoid regional divergence. The exchange examines learning ease, cultural preservation, and competing visions of how languages change and spread.