{"id":355,"date":"2007-12-04T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/04\/simple-english\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:07:29","slug":"simple-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/04\/simple-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple English"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had someone on a forum I frequent ask me a question. It’s in broken English and he explained that he’s not a native speaker. In my reply, I tried to be sensitive to that by speaking somewhat simply. Not in a demeaning way, but in my attempts to learn Spanish, I learned very quickly that short sentences expressing one simple idea are much<\/em> simpler than elaborate sentences conveying a complex range of thoughts, such as this one.<\/p>\n

And that reminded me of the Simple English Wikipedia project<\/a>, which I think should get more attention. They treat it like another language: there’s English, Spanish, Simple English, etc. A really awesome idea in my opinion. (Although the sexual intercourse page<\/a>–warning, has an illustration of the process–is still pretty sketchy… Maybe because it’s not a topic that lends itself to being explained in simple, direct terms?)<\/p>\n

I think “Simple English” is something everyone should practice, though. As some of the pages on the simple.wikipedia.org site show, writing in a simple manner does not necessarily require coming across like a dimwit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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