Editing Alexander Gode (section)

==Interlingua==
Gode was involved with the [[International Auxiliary Language Association]] (IALA) from 1933 on, sporadically at first. In 1936 the IALA began development of a new [[international auxiliary language]] and in 1939 Gode was hired to assist in this work.

After [[André Martinet]] was brought in to head the research in 1946, the two men's views came into conflict as Gode thought that Martinet was trying to schematize the new language too much, conflating it with [[Interlingue|Occidental]]. Gode saw no need to invent a language, as a product of some a-priori design. Instead, he and the former director of research, <span style="white-space: nowrap">[[Ezra Clark Stillman]]</span>, wanted to record the ''international vocabulary'' that, in their view, already existed. This would be done &ndash; and was being done before Martinet &ndash; by systematically extracting and modifying words from the existing control languages in such a way that they could be seen as dialects of a common language, with their own specific peculiarities. When Martinet resigned in 1948 over a salary dispute, Gode took up leadership and got full reign in implementing this vision. The result was [[Interlingua]], the [[Interlingua-English Dictionary|dictionary]] and [[Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language|grammar]] of which were published in 1951.<ref>[http://starter5.aitcom.net/interlinguaus/pakupaku/uploads//GodeManifestodeInterlingua.pdf Gode's Interlingua Manifesto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326175115/http://starter5.aitcom.net/interlinguaus/pakupaku/uploads//GodeManifestodeInterlingua.pdf |date=2009-03-26 }} published in 1959</ref>

In 1953, the role of IALA was assumed by the Interlingua Division of [[Society for Science and the Public|Science Service]], and Gode became the division director. He continued his involvement with Interlingua until his death by translating scientific and medical texts into it. He won awards for this from the [[American Medical Writers Association]] and the [[International Federation of Translators]].<ref>[http://www.interlingua.com/historia/biographias/gode.htm A history of Interlingua in Interlingua] Union Mundial pro Interlingua</ref>