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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English Basic English is 850 words

• rokhayakebe 12y ago
  It won't work because Pride. This language will have to be one that is not tied to any culture.
  • sho_hn 12y ago
    What culture is English tied to anymore, though? India, South Africa, even Asia to some degree have significant unique English vocabularies, having recombined or reapplied existing morphemes to fit local cultural contexts. Consider the Korean "officetel" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officetel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officetel). You're not wrong to point to basic xenophobia as shaping what people do, but I think the "ownership" of English is diffuse enough now that it would take much less effort to dilute it further than coin a new language (which doesn't really happen anyway).
    • rokhayakebe 12y ago
      English is a Western language. It belongs to the Western culture. At least that is how the rest of the world sees it.