OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH    
News of the Institute -- 2005    

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Accomplishments of December 2005
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5f of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 34,336 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of November 2005
• Summarizations of
  • How to Read A Page by Richards, in Basic English.
  • Jeremy Bentham by Ogden, much in Basic English
• Page for Scholarly Articles established.
  • Toward a People's English: Back to BASIC in EIL
  • 'English' as a global lingua franca
Accomplishments of October 2005
• Summary of C.K. OGDEN : A Collective Memoir -- history of Ogden and of Basic English - complete
• Brief summary of Basic By Picture Stamps
Accomplishments of September 2005
• The worldlist is Dari (Afghan Farsi) (pdf) was added by Paul Pajo.
• For the second time in six months our forum has been vandalized. We were not singled out; many other's were hit too. After the first time, we moved to a new hosting service at significant time and expense because the first was unable to restore the forum. The second host seems equally incompetent. The forum is likely at an end.
• Saburo Terada puts his teaching method into Japanese.
• Summary of A Phonetic Basic Reader by A. Lloyd James -- a few pages of many works. - complete
• Expanded the Bible in Basic English.
Accomplishments of August 2005
Summer break.
Accomplishments of July 2005
Summary of Basic English Compiled by Julia E. Johnson. Thirty essays : 10 descriptive, 10 favorable, 10 opposed. - complete
Summary of "Basic English for Adult Education" by National Education Association
Accomplishments of June 2005
• Non-Accomplishements -- our E-mail went down again. E-mail from June5?-June12 were lost this time.   Please resend.  
  Our web host was sold. The new people foolishly set "email:fail" in April and set "email:0" in June. We have signed with a new host and moved the Institute June 19. You should see no difference except that things will work again. Except the Forum history and membership list was lost. .
Accomplishments of May 2005
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5e of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary approaches 33,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Non-Accomplishements of April-May. In separate incidents our forum was vandalized and our primary email address stopped working. Both have taken much time for little effect. E-mails from April 13 thru May 13 were lost - please resend.
Accomplishments of April 2005
• English Word Frequency -- why Basic is clear.
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5c of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary exceeds 30,800 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of March 2005
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5b of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary exceeds 30,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Gulliver in Lilliput .. The Institute has made a translation of this book for young persons. - complete
• New instructions for spell checking with OOo ver 2.0.
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5a of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary exceeds 29,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of February 2005
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5 of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary exceeds 28,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Novel, Carl and Anna - complete.
Accomplishments of January 2005
• Add a games project with samples.
• Novel, Carl and Anna , add chapter 5 (of 6).

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