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BASIC ENGLISH

Basic English is a system of 850 words and five simple rules for putting them together, which was the invention of Mr. C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute, Cambridge, England. It will do the work of 20,000 words of English for the normal purposes of trade, science, and everyday living. Special lists for general science and for any special science put the number of words up to 1,000, with

Liberty Magazine, April 13, 1929.

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The Pig Woman's Story of Her Movements and Observations on the Night of the Hall-Mills Murder.

This form of graphic narrative may be used to accompany fiction as well as fact. It is very simple in idea -- it gives the story in time sequence.

GRAPHIC NARRATIVE

the addition of which the international signs of chemistry, for example, may be made to do their work at the expert level. Its interest for the writer of this book is that graphics -- the international language of the eye -- may be made completely international if Basic English is used where any words are necessary.

Basic may be learned in a month by a quick learner, working privately, or in a year or less in school. To the eye and ear it is not different from normal English, and it takes only a very short time to get the trick of writing and talking in it.

Of 1,500 living languages, only seven are used by more than sixty million persons. Of these seven, English is by far the commonest. It is the natural, or government language of six hundred million, it has for a long time been the second language of the Far East, and is now learned in schools in all parts of the earth.