BASIC ENGLISH.
Sir,-It gave me great pleasure ‘to’ see "your account of "Basic English." ‘The interest taken in this form of new language is full of hope for the cause of trade if not of peace. But I have this to say about the discussions of "Basic" in your and other papers: they would have more authority and interest if given in that language only. Ten years ago Mr. Ogden gave us a talk at University College, London, about Jeremy Bentham who first thought about a short form of English. Then Ogden said that he had kept his words to his "Basic" list. For this reason my first meeting ‘with this language gave me a great surprise but-and this was more important than the sense of surprise and’ discovery-it made us see clearly. that it might. be: of great use. But, though I took some interest in "Basic," your list is the first I have had in my hand and all the words in this letter are taken from it. You ‘get an idea from it of the effect on. us of Mr. Ogden’s (rule not given) telk-the words if not the idea are like those of
a baby.
W.H.
S.
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 238, 14 January 1944, Page 3
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