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
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