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́THE CHINA' MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1947.

Basic English-The New Artificial Language

By L. ROBERTS

It Tak recently announced treatiso into "Basic English": ther-tongue

of

200,000,000

that Britain's Government had in this case the basic vocabul-people, but it is used by many acquired the opyright of ary of 850 words must be in- thousands mere in both low "Basic English" for the sum creased by 100 to 150 technical and administration, -English of £21,000. With this an Im- terms.

is the only language that is portant step has been taken in Adaptations from the Bible understood in every. an interesting development, as well as from selected works India, for example, as well as part of Introduced during World War of such writer as Jonathan in many British Colonies, and II by Mr. Winston Churchill, Sft and Robert Louis Steven- Protectorates where it forma

What is "Basic English"? Anon have shown that "Basic the basis of an somewhat pedantle definition English" can

ordered nd- perform great ministration in accordance with modern Ideas, English fa, in point of fact, the adminiatra- five language of about GOO,- 000,000 people and it is for this reason that it comes near-

the

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Fear And Terror In Sinkiang

i would be Пов follows-"Basic tasks, fer.it is a clear and Bugglish" is a new artifint powerful language. It lacks, lungunge developed in accordas can be expected, the amazing unce with selentifie principles wealth of colour and expres designed to be used as a means alve precision of current Eng- of understanding in conjune-lish. The famous standard cat to the Idea of an interna- tion with the language spoken "Oxford English Dictionary" tional auxiliary language. in every country.

contains 414,825 words and In 1948 Mr. Winston Chur- There has been no lnek, in how can a mero 860 take their chill submitted the advantages the, esurse of many hundreds place without the language be- and the possibilities of "Banic of years. of ingenious attempts coming both anaemic and im English" to an official test. It at forming a new lingue franca poverished? It is for this rea- in significant the Mr. Churchill, which, apart from Its practical son that many flights of one of the greatest exponents value, would be able to serve "Basic English" zealota int of spoken and written English, i the cause of international un- M. Veshinsky's violent retort derstanding. But it would be ture (for example, adaptations importance

the realms of classical ditera was so fully convinced of the to Mr. Marshall's criticism of wrong to compare "Basic Eng of Shakespeare's works)

of Ogden's crea- | Soviet

have tion that he gave it attention non-cooperation before Hah" to such artiflefal Hnguis met with energetic opposition. at the most critical period of the General Assembly of thetic creations as Esperanto, Ido, Natural'y, "Basic English" the war. A study committee United Nations has further Nulango, Novial, Er whatever never enn fully take the place was appointed, under the darkened the prevailing pèssimism other numer we may like to cf the normal language, for chairmanship of Mr. Amery- į over the international outlook. A give them. "Basic English" is a man with a thorough know-Head of the Indian Office, with common reaction is that it has but only in the sense that, with still incapable of reading the the Colonial Secretary and the certainly an artificial language, age of this shortened form is the Minister for Education, widened the rift between East and West; but it is difficult to veloped out of the

a sma' vocabulary, it has de- newspaper. the London Minister for Information 14 see what way a bad situation is limilations of an already exist-veabulary

artificial Times." feat demanding a members. On March 9. 1944,

of about 50.000 Mr. Churchill announced really made worse by this outing language which has grown words. Nevertheless, this lan-results of this investigation in] hurst. There was nothing in the organically over many cen-gure of 850 words absolutely the House of Commons. The speech which has nut been the turies. It is pure English attains its objectivo 18 a study committee emphaticallyince of Sinking is enveloped patches were:

China's north-western pro. Other points in his dis | comninen eucrency of Communist built on only 850 words. vehicle of comprehension for recommended the dissemination

propaganda. for 111any months

crdinary intercourse; it

En an atmosphere of war. fear The first If rebellion in 1944 can, of "Basic English" for two and terror, with most people drove out all Chinese influence past. Its nature; counter-at- "Basic English" is the bril. moreover, be considered as the reasons-fratly. tack, not a reasoned reply to wharfiant invention of a British first stage in learning normal for learning English, and see expecting the outbreak of a and authority from the III area were factual criticisms-is exact- philologist. C. K. Orden. the English,

undly; as 201 international rond I rebelllon, the official und established the so-called ly in decurdance with Russian Director of the Orthologient; Mother Tongue Of nuxillary langungd. Practical Central Daily News Tihua cor-"Eastern Turkestan Republic." tactics from the very first days go working on the language in Institute at Cambridge. He bg-

Millions

proposed for respondent writes in a series The Government fought back

of two articles. of the Security Council's exis-1020 and 12 years elapsed before tongue be chosen as the found-

and finally settled the problem Why should the English achieving these ends.

Since the "general sence. Then it will be recalled, he published his system. The ation for an international_fan.

Enthusiastic Teachers

with-with an 11-point peace agree- drawal of the Ill tribal lea- ment signed in 1945. the Soviet responded to Persia's amazing result of his work was guage? In the first place, Eng. bared on the excel'ent results from the coalition provincial provincial Government,

This sensational report was ders, including Achmadijan agreement set up a coalition Complaints by instigating couna language, of which the entire fish, on account of Its special obtained with the new langu Government, the Ill authorities which the Ill leaders were given ter-accusations. against Britain vocabulary can be written on peculiarity, is admirably suited age in all parts of the world, have practised a "closed door" effective representation, over Greece and Indonesia. In a sheet of notepaper. "Buste to the method of amplification crpecially in the Far fact one wonders why M. Vyshin English" consists of 600 nouns. invented by Ogden. Secondly, Teachers

East policy vis-a-vis the Chinese sky delayed for 24 hours before long" auch na verba, prepost widely spoken language in the of the astounding success that

150 adjectives and 100 "pera-tany

In miestenaries in Government and the three dis rendering what may now be re- tions

most China spoke enthusiastically tricts of It, Tacheng and garded as the sealed pattern for empecially notieuable in the

and adverbs. What is world, not only is it the mo- had Russia's respentse to

any cum small number of verbs, Thu plaint, however reasonable. great idea behind Ogden's sya. The charge that the United tem is the replacing the many States and the United Kingdom verbs in the English language are "putting the brakes on the by a combination of literally realisation. of disarmament" 18 verbs and a number of pre-

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Few Verbs

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Garbo In

shows every sign of being a depositions without once altering Love With

as with the 20.000

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1

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attended their first at- tempts at teaching "Basic Eng-| 'lish." Resulta proved that Ogden's 'anguage can be mas- tered in six months hard work by people of the most varied naticnalitics. The idea

WAR

By CHANG KUO-SIN

040

The

1

in

Achmadijan, rebel chief, was made vice governor of the pro- vince and the "Eastern Tur- kestan Republic" was "abolish- ed.

However, the "republic" still exists in fact, If not in name, Achmopok, appointed · special commissioner for the Ili dla trict after the peace agreement. is addressed As "president" enthusiastically adopted in the Akosu, controlled by the I (of the "republic")" by his United States and a

strong leaders, are now being convert- subordinates and takes orders movement for the general ed into an "armed camp," the from no one but Achmadijan. adoption of "Basic English" as correspondent said. a new universa! language was The feeling of instability A map showing the "repub Inaugurated by Ogden's former and nusvelate, I. A. Richards, who commodity prices in

insecurity has spurred lic's" territory as covering the

Tihun, whole of Sinklang with Urum ja now lecturing at Harvard which are already the highest chi (Tihua) as capital, still University. A practical step in all Chlua, to skyrocket, and hangs in his office. In this direction was the intro- the people are faced with When a 'pro-Chinese Uighur

velopment of a careful man-

the sense of the original verbs 1

Closer oeuvre to put the Western Paw or turns of phrases.

study has revealed that it is ers at least verbally in the wrong. thus M. Vishinsky evidently bases his much with 850 words of "Basic

possible to

expresa aa | contentiosin so far as he re- English"

London, Oct. 4. quires a factual basis at all-on words of the normal English Garbo, left Southampton in The film star. Greta the rejection of the disingenuous Vocabulary. This vocabulary Russian proposals for a "census" le Insufficient if it is a ques the liner Queen Mary for-duction of radio-transmissions worsened lying conditions, and leader named Musaud was ap- of troops. It is quite inpossible on of translating scientific New York to-day after

100 Years Ago

а

זי

last apring against Ili protests,

in "Basic English" from the a deterioration in the political pointed Governor of Sinklang two-month holiday in Britain, United States stations.

situation, he declared. France and Switzerland with- out breaking her customary į silence.

to

that anyone who has access to the facts could be deceived by his as sertions concerning atomic con- trol. That a promising American spleine for control has been utter ly frustrated by Soviet refusal to

When she arrived at South- accept any form of international

ampton from London, she went inspection is universally accepted

straight to her cabin and locked on this side of the iron curtain.

herself in. Telephone calls As all disarmament in practice

her cabin went unanswered,

The New York financier, Mr. must wait upon atomic control.

George Schlee, who was the onus for applying the brake

with rests fairly and squarely on the stai

"Chine was Misa Garbo's first visit to Garbo, dold reportors: "Thia Russians, Their" justification for

England and she is madly COM-Jove with it." assuming this attitude has been a nice regard for national sover to take place in the Military Es- Garbo would begin work

about

Mr. Schlee said that eignty, the grounds on which the tablishment at Hong Kong. It other film, the title of refusal to participate in the Paris is to cease to be a Major-Gen-has not been disclosed, conference on the Marshall pro eral's command, and to be plac-she posals was founded. The genuine- under that of a Colonel on States. Reuter.

returned to the ness of their concern for the inte. the Staff. It is rumoured that grity of States other than their Colonel Trevor, 59th, in likely

(From the Aire of the

THE HONGKONG MANDA reduction is

con-

in

War "A Possibility,"

Says

General

Oklahoma City, Oct. 5.

the Ill leaders quit the conll- tion Government en blos in August.

After the withdrawal, the III lenders closed their doors,a they did during the reboflion.. The Manus River, running from the Soviet Union into cen- tral; Blakiang. 78 miles west of Tihua, is the dividing line with

War within five or six years is a "logical possi-Chinese and Ili soldiers guard- bility," says Major General Leslle R. Groves, The Ill area is now seething

Army atomic expert.

_|_ing opposite bánka,RA

with

Wor preparation, Groves emphasised that he with an attack by some weapon countryside for now recruits on an- He modified his comments

armed squads are foraging the Miss was not making any prediction. of equally devastating effect for the army. Youths from by such as poison gas or deadly the age of 18 are being draft- which saying that war comes that bacteria. when soon, it will not begin with an United atomic homb attack on

He said the defonce of the cd. The airfield in Ill City and the United States at the present the emergency landing stripai United States, but probably time depends almost entirely West of the Manus River are on the atomic bomb as the being enlarged and improved. main weapon. He urged that The boats on the Ill River..

carry agricul the United States put its full which used to support into giving the nation tural products. cattle and ores, a substantial lead in

are now busily transporting atomic

arms-and- research and development,

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorifla

TRICKS FROM NOWHERE

One of

Groves said the United

ammunition.

wn was then demonstrated by a ment.-United Services Gazette." to be selected for the appoint inst open employment of strang

Colonial retrenchment pressure to prevent their neigh-tinues to engage the attention of! bours also from taking part in Parliament, but in reducing the the conference,

military establishment in Hong- Old grievances about. British kong it appears to us us, if the

States his sole possession of "prohibited" area and all out The li district is now a troops in Egypt, Greece and British Government was acting

atomic bomba and the ability Trausjordan, and about Ameri- under the erroneous impresion

107 Surely not South. The only post believe that even with complete screened.

to make them.

He said, Koing and incoming travellers can troops in China. scarcely of the peculiar position of this

and materials are carefully tive tricks in sight were two In make so much weight in a true colony and the benefits the coun-

pades three in hearts, two in dihelp from the United States it

Gen: Chang Chith-chung the most amazing per mands and two in clubs, just enough would take five to seven years Government peace emissary and balance as the procrastination try from it. over an Austrian peace treaty so

formances possible to a deck of cards for gaine. But after hix. spade for another country to fully director of the Generalissimo's Victoria Theatre, under

the is the production of a fat of tricks brought the K and he played his A. develop the bomb Without Northwest Headquarters, wrote that an excuse can be found for patronage of His Excellency the which at the beginning would seem he peppiedap. Guessing that this our assistance, it would take 16 the Ill: leaders on September 1 retaining Russian troops in Hun- Governor-On Wednesday even-impossible to take. As the play pro-ingle have been a must-suit lead to 20 years. Maybe no other requesting them to return to gary. If mure is needed on the ing will be performed by the teed, one development after annie the lethau the fange country could ever make the Tihua and offering peace terms. Western end of the scales of AMATEURS of HMS "Colum-fortunate declarer if he notes the spade against the 7; and, the

crimles new trick-takera' for ale Q This marked a finesse of the bomb. Judgment, the contrasting at bine." Foota's well-known way that small cants get promoted. made his

Groves Raid how soon war

But the latter remained unan' titudes of Britain and Russia to Farce "The Mayor of Garratt," and then inakes, maximum use of the

swered. The diamond 16, then was sent comes depends upon how the the discussion by the Security After which. SAILOR'S inexpected opportunities which seem through' to the K. Marking West now United States-handles things is that the Ili Issue is more Council of Greece and Petain HORNPIPE, and a VARIETY to give him tricks that came from for the Q, be scented en squeeze from now on."--Associated may be recalled. While the Soof singing, to conclude with nowhere, at all.

chance when, the club 3 was returi Press.

a

Pantomino entitled "Harlequin

viet used every endeavour to keep...Neptune or "The Sen-God and the question of Persia from the the Fairy." By kind permission. agenda of the Council, Britain; of Colonel Walters and, the Of in the words of Mr. Bevin, ficers, the Band of the 95th Res so y "wanted the facts on the table." giment will lend their assig. In order to quash, discussion of tance. this vexed-Persian affair M

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West with three hearts and the club. Kị could see that heart discard would. set up the dummy's last heart, so tossed off the club K-In, the hope that

The general feeling in Tihua complicated than before the peace agreement Alsha, Secre tary-General of the provincial. Government, has assorted re- peatedly that the "past year's afforts have come to nothing

Meanwhile, political, insecur ity is leading to the aggrava- tion of economic conditions. Britain took the first step Rice and flour are C.N.82.000,- plcul

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