Talk:Basic English
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The part that's supposedly written in Basic English uses the words "adjust" and "grammar", which are forbidden. --AxelBoldt
- You forgot the number 10 rule: '10. Use the words of an industry or science. For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: grammar, plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive. Further, "adjustment" *is* in the list. I'm not clear enough on Basic English to know whether that makes the verb form "adjust" fair game, or if you have to go to "had adjustments made on them". Brion VIBBER
It occurs to me that since the most important feature of Basic English is adherance to the 850 words, it would be easy to write a Web page (or a computer program, etc.) to test a given text for compliance and even help the writer to edit it by highlighting the incorrect words. It's too bad that Basic English does not seem to have caught on anywhere that I know of. David 10:36 Aug 3, 2002 (PDT)
- That's not a half-bad idea! Actually, this could probably be accomplished pretty easily using any syntax-highlighting text editor: define a new style where the 850 words and their standard inflections are listed as keywords, and anything else will stand out in a different color. --Brion VIBBER (neat! David)
This article has one sentence of introducation before it launches into criticisms of basic English. Could someone improve the introductory paragraph to give more background? Dduck 13:56, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Anyone else notice the fact that this "simple english" is reminiscant of newspeak? --cuiusquemodi 19:54, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, and this is discussed in the article under Historical references. -- Toby Bartels 20:30, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
--- Can the article itself be linked to a version in Basic English (for comparison purposes)?
The difference between Basic English (and Simple English), and Newspeak is that the former provides a starting point for full English, and the latter is a closed (and reducing) system.
Simple English and cultural imperialism
Perhaps the counter argument to this point, mentioned in the text, would be to develop "Simple (other languages)."
Might be an interesting challenge (g).