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THERE are 1,500 chief languages in use at the

Hongkong Telegraph. present time. So in these

MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1938.

WAR-CLOUDS ON FRONTIER

extreme. The

a

introduction of selection of en- ployees by test or examination, a narrow dispersion indicatos a successful system of selection."

Yes, it makes the head go round. But put it into Basic and it becomes clear at the level of the general reader, so:

BELE

"The tendency to a common lovel of output, the higher out-

Go to let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad'from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babol: because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Gen. xi., 7-9.

and more to take the place of puts being more frequent, is a French as the language of in- sign that output is being con- ternational law and political sciously kept inside a certain exchange. Even Mussolini has limit. When the lowest outputs seen the value of making talk- are most frequent and the out- ing pictures in English, and in put of workers not widely a time when nations are becom- different, and generally high, ing increasingly self-conscious, after selection of workers by countries like the Argentine, test has come into use, the Japan, Germany and Turkey are tendency may be taken as a teaching it more and more.

sign that the system of selce. tion is a good one,"

(A complex iden, however you

But it takes your Frenchman put it, but it is at least clearer or German at least four years in Basic.)

to get a knowledge of normal

English. Through Basic, how-

ever, your Frenchman or Ger- Writers a short time. back man may get enough knowledge were talking of the flexible, for saying and writing every fluid and live style" of a book thing he has need of for pur- by Mr. Raymond McGrath on

OR BASIC

Fifteen years back Mr. C. K. Ogden, a Cambridge authority on language, made a start at working out a common language for all tho carth—a system of talking and writing in which the persons of all nations might readily and quickly become expert. The outcome was

Basic English, a language with a list of only 850 words.

As an example of how Basic may be used to say anything,

this account of Basic is in Basic.

days of radio, when nation has the power of talking to nation, when new forms of

But this short list, which may transport make nothing of be printed on one side of note- space, and international

paper, is able, by the use of cer- knowledge is printed at tain endings and a small num- The reports of further deve-100,000 words for 6d., the ber of simple rules, to be made are quiet, to do the work of 20,000 words, lopments on the Soviel-Manchu-tongues of men

their ears are stopped, and for all the purposes of every- so that anything may be anid kuo frontier are orninous in the their eyes do not see.

day existence. It is possible for atmosphere.

And to make things even most complex thoughts and Lense for some time now, more complex Great Britain and ideas to be put into Basic-a poses of everyday existence in new forms of building. It was

America-the two chief users process which frequently makes

four weeks. After be threatening

only 60 not till they got to the last linc appears to

of the English language--are the sense more clear.

hours' work 4 night school of the book that they made tho atorm. If actual warfare is the now building up a new sort of Basic has no "verbs" in the group in Copenhagen went on discovery that it was all in result, the situation may easily Babel for themselves.

normal sense of the world, but the radio in Basic English from Basic. develop into a blaze which will

Year after year new words by putting together the names Radio Kalundborg.

So, in the opinion of a great are put into our language for of simple operations such as set off other already heavily the special uses of the sciences, get, give, come, go, take with word lists for the different the answer to the cry which is Further, with short special number, Basic may not only be charged national hatreds. The invention and learning.

words for directions like in, branches of knowledge Basic going up everywhere for a Japanese Government apparent-

over, through, and the rest, be- may be used to make the strange second language designed for tween 2,000 and 3,000 names of languages of science and learn-

the needs ly realises that to antagonise

of radio, talking So to-day, with between 400,- acts are covered. For example, ing clear to every inan.

pictures and international the Russians further will preet-1000 and 500,000 English words, "insert" becomes put in, "sur-

The user of Basic is forced by being overcome

transport, but may keep us from pilate an avalanche, and if we we have a position in which a mount" becomes get over, "ac- the

short word list to clear we are building for ourselves. by the Babel go more thought tre to credit the statements of man of learning may, and fre- celerute" becomes to

and straightforward out of our English language. the Imperial Japanese Foreign language which does not make

quently does, make use

quickly. of a

statement in talk or writing. Here is an example. A noted Office. that Government is sense to the man in the street.

writer on economics made this "exercising

In the same way thousands of the utmost

Men of science have their "nouns" are no longer needert statement in a book of his: of

private language--a word short- For example, in Basic the word patience and self-restraint."

hand for exchanging The Soviet on the other hand, thoughts quickly with one an- "bitch," female dog.

their "puppy" becomes young dog. whilst naturally loath to begin

other. Men of religion have their special use of words. Busi- possible for this to be

no other language is it an armed clash, is neverthelessness men "are compelled to have English is not a simple language, done. fully prepared and has adopted recourse

to your services" in but it is a language which may a policy of watchful waiting. It place of saying simply they be made more simple than any

MET the smuggler on one of the what had brought him to that part of "have to make is true, undubitably, that

a request to other language.

small tributaries of the Amazon. you," and it seems that nothing

If the world, and he told me quite would have the effect of will keep them from "furnish- first place as the most

Because English now takes put my cance into a little bay in the bluntly, "Smuggling." He had left evening, and found the smuggler Oxford with the usual distinctions coalescing the divergent ing details," "resting assured" language in existence (it is used troduced himself by saying with

used already encamped on land. He in- gained there by Englishmen, had been elements within the borders of land being "esteemed at favours." by over 600,000,000 and is the pronounced Oxford accent;

a unable to find a job-probably be- cause of his distinctions--and had the Soviet, and all factions would field make use of another sort of the value of Basic as an inter-speak English!**

Those working in the political second language of the East) "Hullo, you look as if you could ended up by coming to British Gutana, When I admitted where he had done odd jobs of various unite to face the common language which says nothing national language is clear. this in my plain, flat, Scottish voice,

kinds

Finally he discovered that danger. Some on

when they are forced into a

he immediately shouted:

was a profitable the other

business in position where they have to say are said frequently to make use the incomprehensible manner of the Brazil. He crossed into Brazil with-

"Oh, you're Scotch!" and laughed in smuggling various

ous articles out of hand are of the opinion that a something. war with Japan would see the

Lof English for talking to the Englishman who has discovered out a passport, and spent months in It is the belief. of a number Chinese of South China because Scotsman. For all that he made me the Amazon valley gathering trea- breaking

of language experts forth of

that we they have counter have come to the time when we language, and in the last twenty camped together.

feel like a zoological specimen for a sures. When he got back to British no other

common minute, we soon made friends and territory again he found he had made revolutionary movements in the have to make a

n handsome proft, and decided to selection be- years it has been coming more! state aimed at overthrowing the tween Babel and Basic.

During our evening meal I asked continue the good work

This was his sixth trip into Brazil, and he Stalin regime. Of course, it is things simply and clearly and

Basic is a system for saying GRIN AND BEAR IT

hoped to make many more. impossible to predict what will at the same time for getting actually happen, but a casual free from the unnecessary rules acquaintance with the

of a language which has become over-complex. psychology of the Russian

war

mass

There are only 850 words in people is sufficient to make pos-the complete word list of Basic.

sible a conjecture of their re-

action to ឥ struggle with and submarines are lurking in Fascism, 43 personified by the waters near Vladivostock, Japan. The people will support once an incident has flared into the Government in its campaign. an open breach. These patent

In fact, we must not forget that facts are, well-known to the practically every Russian, re- Japanese, whose espionage sys- gardless of his shade of political tem,

every one knows, is bollef, bears in the depths of his reputedly опе of the most heart, a deep hatred towards the efficient to-day. No wonder Mikado's Empire. Russians Japan' is cautious; for she have never forgotten nor for realises that a loss of a war with given the defeats at Port Arthur the Soviet would mean the end and Mukden, and would welcome of her dream of domination over an opportunity to avenge the Asia; and at the moment she is stain upon their country's his- scarcely in a position to fight tory, From the meagre in-Russin alone. She has reason formation lenking from the to expect aid, however, in any country, there is every indien-war with the Soviet. And it is tion that Siberin and the terri- in the complications, which tory to the North of Manchuria might arise in Europe if Russia is a

veritable armed camp. and Japan clash that tho chief | Acroplanes by the hundred are danger to world peace lies.- awaiting the command to strike, T.P.G.

In

The Chinese of North China

"Narrow dispersions, skewed deliberate human restrictions of output. Skeweed positively, after the

negatively, signify

A

Stuart

Emeny

JOLLY YOUNG SMUGGLER

By Lichty

Love, Shit by United Poglper Kjadrala, Tan,

"Here's the births for 10-day-twelve future Prime Ministers; nine future movie queens, and one whose mother loves him, anyway!"

What if you are caught by the Brazilian police?" I asked.

He laughed as if that were his least

concern.

"Oh, it's worth risking!" he said. He then showed me some of his. treasures. There were several small bugs of

gold dust from the river beds. Another small bag of precious and semi-precious stones. A large case humming birds partially stuffed with cotton-wool. He said they were casily sold, and for good money. There was another case of

of butterflies, enormous blue creatures which are now becoming rare in

in Brazil. He had a bag full of iridescent beetles used jewellery, and some large beetles which would probably end up in a museum, There were also a number of rarer orchid plants and odds and ends of botanical specimena.

for

Everything he had was under the Brazilian Government's export ban, and if he were caught he was able to a lang

term of imprisonment. I told

him

there isn't much risk," he said. is a wild district and hardly policed at all. It's a safe and very profitable business, this smuggling

felt that I had to say something. still

laugh when he

still remembered his discovered a "Scotchman,"

"I don't thinke," I said, "that you know the proper meaning of the word smuggling. What you are doing. Is piracy. The English pirates still raid Sonth Amerien."

The smuggler from Oxford laugh- ed cheerfully.

"Oh, you Scotch are awful wat blankets!" he saith.

Miller Walsom