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Name: Lina Yunari FKIP B. Inggris C 4 NIM: 41032122101076: International Commercial

1. Basic English is a simplified form of English created by Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language and to teach English as a second language. 2. It gained popularity after World War II as a means for world peace but was not widely adopted. However, it influenced other simplified forms of English like Special English. 3. Today, what remains influential from Basic English is the 850-word vocabulary list that is commonly used to teach beginners English worldwide, especially in Asia.

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Name: Lina Yunari FKIP B. Inggris C 4 NIM: 41032122101076: International Commercial

1. Basic English is a simplified form of English created by Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language and to teach English as a second language. 2. It gained popularity after World War II as a means for world peace but was not widely adopted. However, it influenced other simplified forms of English like Special English. 3. Today, what remains influential from Basic English is the 850-word vocabulary list that is commonly used to teach beginners English worldwide, especially in Asia.

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Name : Lina Yunari

FKIP B. Inggris C 4
NIM: 41032122101076
BASIC ENGLISH

Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created (in
essence as a simplified subset of English) by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an
international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second Language. It was
presented in Ogden's book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).
Capitalized, BASIC is sometimes taken as an acronym that stands for British American Scientific
International Commercial.[1]

Ogden's Basic, and the concept of simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the
Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace. Although Basic English was not
built into a program, similar simplifications have been devised for various international uses. Ogden's
associate I. A. Richards promoted its use in schools in China.[2] More recently, it has influenced the
creation of Voice of America's Special English for news broadcasting, and Simplified English, another
English-based controlled language designed to write technical manuals.

What survives today of Ogden's Basic English is the basic 850-word list used as the beginner's
vocabulary of the English language taught worldwide, especially in Asia.[3]

A simplified form of the English language based on 850 key words was developed in
the late 1920s by the English psychologist Charles Kay Ogden and publicized by the English
educator I. A. Richards. Known as Basic English, it was used mainly to teach English to non -
English-speaking persons and promoted as an international language. The complexities of
English spelling and grammar, however, were major hindrances to the adoption of B asic
English as a second language.

The fundamental principle of Basic English was that any idea, however complex, may
be reduced to simple units of thought and expressed clearly by a limited number of everyday
words. The 850-word primary vocabulary was composed of 600 nouns (representing things or
events), 150 adjectives (for qualities and properties), and 100 general “operational” words,
mainly verbs and prepositions. Almost all the words were in common use in English -
speaking countries; more than 60 percent were one-syllable words. The abbreviated
vocabulary was created in part by eliminating numerous synonyms and by extending the use
of 18 “basic” verbs, such as make, get, do, have, and be. These verbs were generally
combined with prepositions, such as up, among, under, in, and forward. For example, a Basic
English student would use the expression “go up” instead of “ascend.”

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