The SYSTEM of BASIC ENGLISH

Prefix		v.
Contents		vii
	PART ONE : GENERAL ACCOUNT
I . INTRODUCTORY :Basic English by Question and Answer
	1 . What is Basic English?	3
	2 . What is its Purpose?	4
	3 . Why 850 Words?	4
	4 . Why English Words	5
	5 . What about Grammar?	5
	6 . How can you get rid of Verbs?	5
	7 . How does Basic deal with Technical matters?	6
	8 . How will Spoken Basic be Standardized?	8
	9 . How will the English-speaking peoples learn Basic?	8
	10 . What is Basic English like?	8
	11 . What about Esperanto?	10
	12 . Why not Latin?	11
	13 . Can Basic be Learned by Children?	11
	14 . How does Basic deal with the problem of Idiom?	12
	15 . What is the Basic policy as regards Spelling reform?	13
	16 . How has Basic been received abroad?	15
II . BASIC AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
	1 . Babel	18
	2 . Views of Leading Authorities	19
	3 . Facts and Figures	22
	4 . Debablization	32
	PART TWO .   THE SYSTEM
THE A B C OF BASIC ENGLISH (full contents)		35
Simple step by step account of the 850 Words, the rules and grammar, including special uses; all in Basic		36
	PART THREE .   EXAMPLES
I . RADIO, NEWSPAPERS, MOTION PICTURES
	1 . "The Radio Presidents"	139
	2 . President Roosevelt on the Banks, from Radio Talk
	a . in President Roosevelt's words  and  b . in Basic	142
	3 . "Psychiatry Good and Bad"	152
	4 . "Numbers and Reason"	153
	5 . "Talking is now Possible"	155
	6 . Selection from a motion picture scene, "Cradle Song"	156
II . THE NEWCOMER
	1 . Railway Station	169
	2 . Hotel	171
	3 . Bank	174
	4 . Restaurant	176
III . EVERYDAY
	1 . Meeting on the Street	180
	2 . At the Stores	182
	3 . At the Bookstore	185
	4 . At the Moving-Picture House	188
	5 . At the Theatre	190
	6 . At the Dance	193
	7 . A Day in the Country	196
IV . BUSINESS
	Examples of 27 Business Letters	201 Basic For Business
V . SCIENCE
	1 . "The Chemical History of Candle," from Faraday	223
	2 . "On Scales." from Haldane	233
	3 . Discoveries and Inventions	237
VI . ECONOMICS
	Selection from Malthus	242
VII . POLITICAL QUESTIONS
	1 . "The A B C of War Payments," from Wickham Steed	247
	2 . The Kellogg Pact	251
VIII. MEETINGS
	Opening Talk at the Banff Conference (1933) of the Institute of Pacific Relations	254
IX . RELIGION
	1 . "The Making of the Earth"	264
	2 . "Adam and Eve"	266
	3 . "Ruth"	270
	4 . "Birth of Christ"	277
X . STORIES
	1 . "Crusoe Come to His Island" from Defoe	280
	2 . "Macbeth" from Lamb	286
	3 . "The Future of Basic" from H. G. Wells	298
APPENDIX :
The Basic WORD WHEEL		305
INDEX TO THE BASIC WORDS		309
GENERAL INDEX		319

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