Re: Simple English
| From: | Gerald Koenig <jlk@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 13, 1999, 18:52 |
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>Anyone have any ideas how many words in English do you really need
>versus words created for specific things, namely those from Greek/Latin,
>but basically a core group of words. Also idea to set up the basic
>spelling of those words and then design a simplified grammer for them?
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>Mike
Mike,
Jack Durst built the NGL core grammar with the Ogden set. Supposedly
anything can be said by combining them.
Anna Wierzbicka finds 89 words/concepts basic to all languages and builds
a simplified universal grammar with them.
Good Luck with your lang,
Jerry