The English language is a language widely used for communication , including those with which it is not the native language , several projects to simplify the language have emerged.

• Everything at first the basic English of Charles Kay Ogden. In English, the basic word means "base", but here it is an acronym (British American Scientific International Commercial). It is a very small subset (850 words) of the English language, which creates more ad hoc grammatical rules.
• the SAS Franais, the English Voice of America , is a perfectly coded English, 1500 words only. It is characterized by a slow diction (25% less than normal speed), a limited number of words and phrases banned idiomatic.
• The basic English phonics
• The purely European basic English (the American-sounding words have been banned in favor of Anglo-Saxon words more Oxfordian)
• The simplified English used in industry aerospace.

There are two simplified versions of English called Globish "

• The Globish proposed by Madhukar Gogate in 1998 dramatically simplifies the spelling and pronunciation of English
• conversely, what Jean-Paul Nerrire this Globish in 2004 as is the entire vocabulary is strictly necessary for understanding among all people using English as the lingua franca. So the core of international English. It does not change the language.

We often associate the complexity of the English language used in the word length. It is recommended that teachers of small classes that use the words of one or two syllables. In Brave New World , the newspaper for people of Delta (the penultimate intellectual class, the last can not read) is written only in words of one syllable. Conversely, a frequently using English words of four syllables is considered more intellectual.

On the contrary, for purposes of communication with non-native English speakers, Simple Franais recommends using for example ("example") rather than like (here, a French replace it with "like"), the word like with many other uses. In many languages, the most common words are also the most polysemous. A language spoken by all may be limited to the more common terms, but rather if one seeks to construct a language devoid of ambiguity it is necessary to use less common words.

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The English language neutral

The idea of using a simplified English as the language is also strongly opposed by supporters of Esperanto. English is the language in several countries playing a major role in the international community , its use has political connotations, especially seen as a factor of Americanization. Instead, the Esperanto borrows its radical variety of languages to have a neutral lingua franca.

Because of its status as a dead language , the Latin is also seen as more neutral than English. The motto of the EU is therefore written in Latin, the Vatican retains the Latin for many uses.

Simplifying the language and limitation of thought

The Newspeak is built with the principles parody attempts to simplify English. For example, any adjective can be negated with the prefix in-(a-in the original version, as in Basic English), reinforced by the prefix over-, and further strengthened by the prefix-doubleplus; rendered superfluous words are eliminated from the vocabulary. The adjective "good" alone covers the register of appreciation: "horrible" becomes doubleplusinbon (to restore the desire for simplification, the translator has decided that the French derivative of Newspeak is freed from the rule "rather than m n front of a b ': write not while French calls "undrinkable" and not "inbuvable).

In The Dead Poets Society , Professor Keating called on the contrary not to reinforce an adverb with an adjective when an adjective is stronger. For example he says is a mistake to say "very tired" and "extremely tired" because you can say "exhausted" and "exhausted" (the original version of this course is in English, but here the translation renders perfectly the idea). If a simplified language is justified in assuming that the language used to communicate, it should be rejected if the goal is it to be pretty (Keating said that languages were not invented to communicate, but "to seduce women").

In these examples, the simplified English is accused of limiting the ability to translate emotions subtly varied, and thus limit the thought itself.

External Links

• (En) Franais VOA Special and the (en) Franais VOA Special Word Book
• (In) Fanetik: Reformed (Phonetic) Spelling Franais - At Least for Teaching
• The Basic English by CK Ogden
• (En) Franais Simple

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