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Subject:Re: Preparing doc for translation From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:39:29 -0700
Ray Bruman x2325 said:
> You might want to research Basic English, a concept invented early
> in the century by a British linguist named Osgood (?) at Cambridge (?).
There's also Simplified English, which I understand is a superset of
Basic English and has less trouble being accepted by native speakers
of English. I'm sorry I don't have any references, though.