Vocabulary Schleyer adapted the vocabulary mostly from English, with a smattering of German and French. Some words remain readily recognizable for a speaker of one of the source languages, but many others are modified beyond easy recognition."For example, while it is true that words like vol and pük don't really look like world and speak, but the whole language is not like that. Scores of words are very obvious as what they mean – if, fasilik, gudik/badik, smalik, jerik (pronounced sherík – expensive), bank, bäk (back), deadik". – "What the L!", AUXLANG list posting by Thomas Alexander, 15 November 2005. For instance, vol and pük are derived from the English words world and speak. Although unimportant linguistically, and regardless of the simplicity and consistency of the stress rule, these deformations were greatly mocked by the language's detractors. It seems to have been Schleyer's intention, however, to alter its loan words in such a way that they would be hard to recognise, thus losing their ties to the languages (and, by extension, nations) from which they came. Conversely, Esperanto and Interlingua are commonly criticized as being much easier to learn for Europeans than for those with non-European native languages.
Vocabulary Schleyer adapted the vocabulary mostly from English with a smattering of German and French Some words remain readily recognizable for a speaker of one of the source languages but many others are modified beyond easy recognition"For example while it is true that words like vol and pük don't really look like world and speak but the whole language is not like that Scores of words are very obvious as what they mean – if fasilik gudik/badik smalik jerik (pronounced sherík – expensive) bank bäk (back) deadik" – "What the L" AUXLANG list posting by Thomas Alexander 15 November 2005 For instance vol and pük are derived from the English words world and speak Although unimportant linguistically and regardless of the simplicity and consistency of the stress rule these deformations were greatly mocked by the language's detractors It seems to have been Schleyer's intention however to alter its loan words in such a way that they would be hard to recognise thus losing their ties to the languages (and by extension nations) from which they came Conversely Esperanto and Interlingua are commonly criticized as being much easier to learn for Europeans than for those with non-European native languages