Editing Interlingue (section)

=== Vocabulary ===
Though seemingly favourable to the Romance language family, de Wahl did not see Occidental as a Romance language and did not tolerate any nationalism or chauvinism in the choice of words for the language. His opinion on justice in the choice of vocabulary was that: "However many special, new, significant words each [culture] has respectively added to the common human culture, that much they receive."<ref name=":17">{{Cite web|last=de Wahl|first=Edgar|date=February 1929|title=International o Romanic (Cosmoglotta A, 1929, pp. 27 – 33)|url=http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0g&datum=1929&page=31&size=45|access-date=9 September 2020|quote="Lasciate ogni nazionalismo, voi ch'entrate" in li sant dominia del interhoman comprension.|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415021927/https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0g&datum=1929&page=31&size=45|url-status=live}}</ref> In an article entitled "International o Romanic" (International or Romance) in 1929, he gave examples from a number of categories in which particular languages had a particularly large influence. Those included Greek for science and philosophy ({{lang|ie|teorema}}, {{lang|ie|teosofie}}, {{lang|ie|astronomie}}), Latin for politics and law ({{lang|ie|social}}, {{lang|ie|republica}}, {{lang|ie|commission}}), Scandinavian, Dutch and English for navigation ({{lang|ie|log}}, {{lang|ie|fregatte}}, {{lang|ie|mast}}, {{lang|ie|brigg}}, {{lang|ie|bote}}), and various other international vocabulary originating in other languages ({{lang|ie|sabat}}, {{lang|ie|alcohol}}, {{lang|ie|sultan}}, {{lang|ie|divan}}, {{lang|ie|nirvana}}, {{lang|ie|orang-utan}}, {{lang|ie|bushido}}, {{lang|ie|té}}, {{lang|ie|dalai-lama}}, {{lang|ie|cigar}}, {{lang|ie|jazz}}, {{lang|ie|zebra}}, {{lang|ie|bumerang}}, etc.).<ref name=":17" />