More on BASIC English, etc: _The Oxford Companion to the English Language_ (ISBN 0-19-214123-X) has entries about BASIC English, Airspeak (ICAO English), Seaspeak and restricted vocabulary English. Things in modern usage we old f*rts might object to are hardly addressed by these abbreviated English forms at all. They are concerned only with maximizing communication with minimal knowledge on a speaker's or listener's part. While I sometimes find BASIC English awkward, it does have a lot to recommend it.
I find, though, that I can get close to BASIC's ease of being understood by just making my words as short as I can. Wasn't it Churchill who said, "Short words are best, and the old, short words, better?" Ad Astra -- per Aspirin! Cortland ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org