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  1. bs2 @[email protected] ·

    > From 1942 to 1944, working as a colleague of #WilliamEmpson's, he produced a series of broadcasts to India written in #BasicEnglish, trying to use its programmed simplicity, as a Tribune article put it,

    'as a sort of corrective to the oratory of statesmen and publicists.'

    Only during the last year of the war did he write 'Politics and the #EnglishLanguage,' insisting that the defense of English language has nothing to do with the setting up of a #StandardEnglish.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_en

    #standardenglish #englishlanguage #basicenglish #williamempson