Busted by the unions?

A review of "Qosmiani: A New International Language" 

This is not a "Thai edition", as wrongly stated on the product page. The book is in English. Parts of it are in Qosmiani, the "universal langage" constructed by the otherwise unknown author, Wilbur Massat Law Beatty. His book was published in 1922. It's virtually unreadable, due to its small print. It's clearly written on a typewriter! Beatty at one point blames the monopoly of union labour for his plight. Apparently, the unionized print shops demanded too much money from the struggling author. (I have another guess: the lone genius Beatty was a difficult guy, so the printers told him where he could put his typewriter.)

Apart from proposing a new language scheme, Beatty also wanted to form an organization in the form of a "quasi-national government" devoted to the international adoption of the metric system, Christian ethics, support for the League of Nations, prohibition of alcohol and tobbacco, and (surprise) struggle against Bolshevism and unionism. The platform of the Cosmic Republic (as it was called) is then rendered in Qosmiani.

Qosmiani itself is hardly an improvement over other universal language scheme, being essentially a garbled Romance language made more difficult to comprehend by unfamiliar affixes and suffixes. Of course, the success of a conlang is only partially due to its linguistic beauty (which may be subjective anyway): Schleyer's Volapük, which is far stranger, was more succesful for a decade than Qosmiani, which wasn't even properly published!

Otherwise, I noticed that Beatty uses simplifed English spelling ("wil", "shal", "thot", etc), while being fond of very exotic words, such as triskatdekaglot, hekkaidekaglot and eikosipentaglot.

Well, he was a lone genius, after all!