Talk:Hieronymus Findorff/@comment-82.232.235.200-20121122102200

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And yet it was the very lack of ambiguity of Logpalaver which proved to be its downfall. Findorff was nothing if not idealistic in the project thinking that clarity could but advance diplomatic missions, whereas it is in the interstices of shaded possible meanings an their inverse that the diplomatic tongue must be most exercised, witness the long reign of French in this matter. It is in fact one theory, though hardly accepted by a consensus of scholars, that it was a group of philosophers brought together, sub rosa, by Austria, the Netherlands, Britain, and France to kill Findorff for his efforts in this domain. As he was in London when he first started the project, the fire that ravaged the city that year is thought to have stemmed from an attempt to burn all his writings so for on the language. It is no thanks to him that the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed.