BASIC English versus the artificial languages

BASIC English versus the artificial languages
Author	Charles Kay Ogden
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Trubner and Company, Limited
Publication date	1935
Pages	184

BASIC English versus the artificial languages is a book published in 1935 by Charles Kay Ogden. In it, the author compares BASIC English with different artificial languages. He also explains why BASIC English is a better solution as an international language than other artificial languages and he criticises the authors of those languages.^[1]

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↑ Orwell, George (28 January 1944). "As I Please". Tribune. I WISH now that I had read Basic English versus the Artificial Languages before and not after reviewing the interesting little book in which Professor Lancelot Hogben sets forth his own artificial language, Interglossa. For in that case I should have realized how comparatively chivalrous Professor Hogben had been towards the inventors of rival international languages.

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[1] Orwell, George (28 January 1944). "As I Please". Tribune. I WISH now that I had read Basic English versus the Artificial Languages before and not after reviewing the interesting little book in which Professor Lancelot Hogben sets forth his own artificial language, Interglossa. For in that case I should have realized how comparatively chivalrous Professor Hogben had been towards the inventors of rival international languages.

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