Unexpectedly came the thought: "How strange it is that there is nothing in the appearance of a written or printed word that gives the slightest hint of its meaning.
The publication of Ro periodicals was supported by several American sponsors, especially from the Marietta, Ohio area, including Melvil Dewey,[2] inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (another attempt to categorize human knowledge), Vice President Charles G. Dawes,[2] George White,[2] who mentioned Ro in the Congressional Record,[3][4] and Alice Vanderbilt Morris of IALA.
A posteriori languages, such as Esperanto and Interlingua, are more popular than the a priori type, perhaps partly because their familiar vocabulary makes them easy to learn and recognize.
Solresol was an earlier classificatory language that by using a smaller symbol set achieved easier distinctness.
It is the last stanza of William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" translated into Ro by Foster himself: Asi lib, ut avit ace vodas, Em kep eb cok zudod pibaf av keb Id bofwo dacagz ov bocnap, avid Ak hek dugac in dufalz ov lobu Ac en ket iqk futoq rambar taji, Paksolo id datag, ub, poboso Ip en mojop rigam, kidjeb lotmag Iqk ra av dimgef doqab ov dodac Ip ad, ud mobem id lastom rivalz.