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...SYSTEM OF BASIC ENGLISH - C. K. Ogden - Harcourt, Brace...
...What the World needs most," says Orthologist Charles Kay Ogden, ''is about 1,000 more dead languages - and one more alive." Seeing the modern Babel as the principal barrier to worldwide communication, commerce and science. Ogden cast about for a linguistic ladder. Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent...
...nouns, 150 adjectives, 100 other words take the place of the 415.000 listed in The Oxford English Dictionary. There are only five grammatical rules ("the exceptions ... are few and unimportant")The apparently whimsical spelling of English, a grief to struggling foreigners, has not been tampered with. Ogden admits this difficulty but calls it minor, hopes to see spelling reform make plain English even plainer. No pidgin English, Basic can be used to express ideas, as Ogden proves by writing its 100-page system in Basic English...
...Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working efficiency of language, this book was the starting point of Basic English. His position as student of psychology and language has brought him in touch with many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs...
...Stanley Baldwin has joined Ogden L. Mills as an advocate of lost causes. In a speech to the school children of England he appealed to them not to join either the Communists or the Fascists, for in that case there would be no alternative but civil war for England. With as much tearfulness as an English squire of the old school can manage, he implores them to stick to democracy and the English way of government, which he obviously thinks is the most nearly perfect system ever devised by the mind...