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Simplified English (other)
Simple English may refer to: * Basic English, a controlled language, created by Charles Kay Ogden, which only contains a small number of words * Learning English (version of English), used by the Voice of America broadcasting service * Plain English * New General Service List * Simplified Technical English, a controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals See also * Simple English Wikipedia The Simple English Wikipedia is a modified English language, English-language edition of Wikipedia written primarily in Basic English and Learning English (version of English), Learning English. It is one of seven List of Wikipedias, Wikipedias ... * Simple English Wiktionary * Easy read {{disambiguation Controlled English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basic English
Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but with a greatly simplified vocabulary and grammar. It was created by the linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. It was presented in Ogden's 1930 book ''Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar''. The first work on Basic English was written by two Englishmen, Ivor Richards of Harvard University and Charles Kay Ogden of the University of Cambridge in England. The design of Basic English drew heavily on the semiotic theory put forward by Ogden and Richards in their 1923 book '' The Meaning of Meaning''. Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in World War II as a means for world peace. He was convinced that the world needed to grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kay Ogden
Charles Kay Ogden (; 1 June 1889 – 20 March 1957) was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric and Emic and etic, outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts, and philosophy, having a broad effect particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on behalf of a language reform, reformed version of the English language. He is typically defined as a psycholinguist, linguistic psychologist, and is now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English. Early life and education Charles Kay Ogden was born at Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, on 1 June 1889 to Charles Burdett Ogden (13 July 1849 – 10 December 1923) and Fanny Hart (1850 – 21 December 1944), who were married in 1888 at Chorlton, Lancashire. His father was employed in various capacities at the Rossall School during the years 1873–1909. Charles Kay Ogden was educated at Buxton a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learning English (version Of English)
Learning English (previously known as Special English) is a controlled natural language, controlled version of the English language first used on October 19, 1959, and still presented daily by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America (VOA). World news and other programs are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. Reporters avoid idioms and use a core vocabulary of about :simple:Wikipedia:VOA Special English Word Book, 1500 words, plus any terms needed to explain a story. The intended audience is intermediate to advanced learners of English. In 1962 the VOA published the first edition of the Word Book. VOA has teamed up with the University of Oregon and produced free online training ''Let’s Teach English'' for English language educators. The series is based on the ''Women Teaching Women English'' and is aimed for adult beginning level learners''.'' Examples VOA Learning English has multiple daily newscasts and 14 weekly features. These include reports on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plain English
Plain English (also referred to as layman's terms) is a mode of writing or speaking the English language intended to be easy to understand regardless of one's familiarity with a given topic. It usually avoids the use of rare words and uncommon euphemisms to explain the subject. Plain English wording is intended to be suitable for almost anyone, and it allows for good understanding to help readers know a topic. It is considered a part of plain language. Etymology The term derives from the 16th-century idiom "in plain English", meaning "in clear, straightforward language" as well as the Latin ''planus'' ("flat"). Another name for the term, layman's terms, is derived from the idiom "wiktionary:in layman's terms, in layman's terms" which refers to language phrased simply enough that a Laity, layman, or common person without expertise on the subject, can understand. History United Kingdom In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an essay titled, "Politics and the English Language", where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New General Service List
The New General Service List (NGSL) is a list of 2,809 words (lemmas) claimed to be a list of words that second-language learners of the English language are most likely to meet in their daily lives. It was published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013 and updated in 2016 and 2023. The words in the NGSL represent the most important high-frequency words of the English language for second-language learners and is a major update of Michael West's 1953 GSL. Although there are more than 600,000 words in the English language, the 2,800 words in the NGSL give more than 92% coverage for learners when trying to read most general texts of English. The main goals of the NGSL project were to (1) modernize and greatly increase the size of the corpus used by, and to (2) create a list of words that provided a higher degree of coverage with fewer words than, the original GSL. The 273-million-word subsection of the more than two-billion-word Cambridge En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Technical English
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled natural language designed to simplify and clarify technical documentation. It was originally developed during the 1980's by the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA), at the request of the European Airline industry, who wanted a standardized form of English for aircraft maintenance documentation that could be easily understood by non-native English speakers. It has since been adopted in many other fields outside the aerospace, defense, and maintenance domains for its clear, consistent, and comprehensive nature. The current edition of the STE Standard, published in January 2025, consists of 53 writing rules and a dictionary of approximately 900 approved words. History The first attempts towards controlled English were made as early as the 1930s and 1970s with Basic English, Caterpillar Fundamental English and Eastman Kodak (KISL). In 1979, aerospace documentation was written in American English (Boeing, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple English Wikipedia
The Simple English Wikipedia is a modified English language, English-language edition of Wikipedia written primarily in Basic English and Learning English (version of English), Learning English. It is one of seven List of Wikipedias, Wikipedias written in an Anglic languages, Anglic language or English-based pidgin or Creole language, creole. The site has the stated aim of providing an encyclopedia for "people with different needs, such as students, children, adults with learning disability, learning difficulties, and people who are trying to learn English language, English." Simple English Wikipedia's basic presentation style makes it helpful for beginners learning English. Its simpler word structure and syntax, while missing some nuances, can make information easier to understand when compared with the regular English Wikipedia. History The Simple English Wikipedia was launched on September 18, 2001. In 2012, Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia community, Wikipedian and author, told NB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Read
Easy read is a method of presenting written information to make it easier to understand for people with difficulty reading. Easy read advocates sentences of no more than ten to fifteen words, with each sentence having just one idea and one verb. Active sentences are used instead of passive sentences. Easy read is closely edited to express ideas in a small number of simple words. Any difficult word or idea is explained in a separate sentence. The plain English statement: "Thank you for your letter asking for permission to put up a poster in the library; before we can give you an answer, we will need to see a copy of the poster to assure that it won't offend anyone." could be rewritten in easy read as follows: "Thank you for your letter about your poster; we need to see the poster to check that it won't upset people, then we may decide if you may put it up." An easy read document is usually presented in at least 14-point text, in a sans-serif font, is limited to 24 pages of conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
