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by leke 1388 days ago
It was renamed from Occidental because some weird group (communist I think) calling themselves something similar and that was being associating with the language Occidentalists.

As for the name change, I think it has a very general meaning, like amongst-language with the e ending being typical for Occidental nouns and the a ending for Interlingua nouns (maybe). Weirdly enough, the name push was by a guy called Ric Berger who was a Occidentalist who moved to Interlingua and probably played a part in naming both languages. BTW, both languages are very similar in vocabulary roots with Interlingua drawing inspiration from Occidental during its development (if I understood correctly).
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CRConrad 1388 days ago
Ah, I see, thanks.

First thing that springs to mind: So maybe this Berger guy was trying to force or at least encourage a merger?

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leke 1386 days ago
Yes, I think that is the case. There is a bit more history between Interlingue and Interlingua than I have mentioned, and I think Ric played a part of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Berger

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