A list of words used in Special English
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Specialized English Word Book
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Globish Words explained in English
Newspapers: Browse Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954)
Thursday 26 April 1934
Page 3
VOCABULARY OF 1500 WORDS.
VOCABULARY OF 1500 WORDS.
Simplified English Wanted.
For All Needs.
A vocabulary of from 1300 to 1500
words is enough to express anything
necessary in world trade, diplomatic
exchange, or public addresses, Dr.
Janet Aiken, of the English Depart
ment of Columbia University said re-
cently.
Dr. Aiken will head a committee of
scholars being formed to work out a
system of simplified English, which
can be used as an International langu-
age. She believes it can be done and
without simplified spelling, which she
termed 'anarchy.'
In the opinion of Dr. Aiken, a sys-
tem of English with a vocabulary of
no more than 1500 words would be far
better as an International language
than Esperanto, Ido and other at-
tempts at a universal tongue.
'The trouble with Esperanto and
the others,' she said, 'is that they
start with one people, while English
starts with 240,000,000 people.
'Pidgin English as it is used in
China and in the Pacific Islands is an
adaption of English for International
use, but it is not culturally acceptable
because respectable people won't use
it. A workable aystam must keep to
the language of educated people.
WORLD NEED.
'People all over the world are cry-
ing for an English they can use for
purposes of trade, diplomacy, teach-
ing, and so on, and hundreds of mil-
lions would learn it if they could.'
The trouble with teaching 'literary'
English to foreigners, Dr. Aiken said
lies in its vocabulary of some 280,000
words, the difficulty ot its spelling
and its irrational idioms. At the rate
which people really learn new words,
it would take a foreigner eight years
to learn enough English to read the
'London Times' intelligently, she esti-
mated.
Simplified spelling doesn't help, Dr.
Aiken said, because it doesn't clear up
the difficulties about vocabulary and
idiom. She thinks it much better to
simplify the vocabulary, and she said
that a total of 1500 words is just
enough for the average person to
learn well in a year.
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1500 DAILY WORDS
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tax
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team
tear
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technology
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term
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wire
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with
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1501 words
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
Mark Abley | 2008
"[...]The new language which is rapidly ousting the language of Shakespeare as the world's lingua franca is English itself - English in his new global form."
To proponents of this simplified lingua franca, native speakers, whether in their British or American form, are not necessarily a model.
[p.100]
Mark Abley takes the reader on a world-wide trip like no other - from Singapore to Japan, Oxford to Los Angeles, through the web and even back in time. As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of the world.On his travels Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers and web-savvy teenagers. He talks to a married couple who were passionately corresponding online before they met in 'meatspace.' And he listens to teenagers, puzzling out the words they coin in chat rooms and virtual worlds. Lively, evocative, passionate and hilarious, this is a book for everyone who cherishes the words we use.
The Germanic Languages
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera | 2013
>>> The part on Pidgin English, especially Tok Pisin is very close to an analysis of Toki Pona
Globish – a language of international business?
Mark Williams
[...]
Where I do support the need to protect languages and hinder English’s ever increasing global dominance, I feel the time spent learning Globish would be more beneficial and have a positive impact if spent learning a real language, one that comes embedded within a culture, rather than learning a language which can be classed to some extent as another variant of Pidgin English.
https://global-lingo.com/globish-a-language-of-international-business/
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