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From: fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch (Norbert E. Fuchs)
Subject: Re: What is "BASIC" English?
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In article <807133933.8515@shambala.demon.co.uk>,
martin@shambala.demon.co.uk (Martin Smith) wrote:

> About 10 years ago, I did a course in natural language processing, and
> reference was made to something called "Basic English", which
> comprised about 50 verbs and 100-200 nouns (I think the numbers were
> of that sort of order).
> 
> Does anyone have any information on this topic, such as books, etc.?

As a follow-up question: Does anyone have any information on
restricted/controlled English? By this I mean English that is not
necessarily restricted in its vocabulary, but in its grammar.

Thanks.

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