OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
News of the Institute
Accomplishments of November-December 2008
- Work with Basic English installer for OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Accomplishments of October 2008
- Minor updates to Basic translation dictionary (idp romanian 7a) for eParaphraser.
Accomplishments of Sept 2008
- Review eParaphraser, stand alone page translation software being developed by member Mike.
Accomplishments of July 2008
Accomplishments of June 2008
- IDP translation version 0.7. The vocabulary has over 47,000 words, derivatives, spellings and senses to convert English to Basic.
- Much of the month has been spent working with a branch of the U.S. Dept of Education charged with planning
the teaching of English in Asia . The approach is "Little Englishes" with a common vocabulary based on our sequence :
Basic English, Next Step Basic, Simple English and Simple Wiki English. Key is the worldwide, free, Open Office.org suite
for which we offer spell checking and English- to-Basic translation. Foundation funding is being sougnt to make this a free market endevour.
We need to estimate and make progress with programming and integration with Open Office.org.
Volunteers have a ground floor opportunity. (more)
Accomplishments of May 2008
Accomplishments of April 2008
Accomplishments of March 2008
Accomplishments of February 2008
Accomplishments of January 2008
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