是一种人工语言，它基于英语的一种简化版本而产生，由查尔斯·凯·奥格登(Charles Kay Ogden)创造。在他于1930年所出版的《基本英语--规则和语法的一般约定》一书中有详细的介绍。奥格登说，学习英语要7年，学习世界语要7个月，而学习基本英语只要7星期。因此，商业公司会将艰涩难懂但需要全球使用的文书写成基本英语；而语言学校也会为了让学生短期内学会简单的英语，而教授基本英语。奥格登不使用重复意义的单词，而且需要所有国家都适用这些单词。他利用大规模的测试和调整来得到这些词汇。在语法方面，他也做了简化，但是保留了英语通常的用法。在第二次世界大战后，这种简化开始蕴含推进世界和平的理念。但是由于缺乏规划，发展出了不同地方使用的简化版本。单词表()1 动作 - 100 个单词2 事物 - 400 个常用单词3 事物 - 200个可用图表示的单词4 状态 - 100个常用单词5 状态 - 50 个有反义词的单词奥格登基本英语的语法规则是为了让人们只用850个单词就可以解决一般交流。1在单词词尾加-s作为复数，那些加-es和-ies的保留。2四个词缀：-er可以变成300多个名词，-ing和-ed变成形容词。3使用-ly变成副词。4对于数量，使用more和most，保留-er和-est.5形容词的反义词是加前缀un-.6问句使用相反的词序，加上do.7人称和代名词使用和一般英语相同。8可以使用两个名词组合成新词，比如milkman和wordend还可以是名词加方位sundown.9单位，数字，货币，月份，日子，年份，钟点和国际语同一般英语形式。10使用专业和科技词汇。一些特殊词汇不属于基本英语，词性，复数等变化不遵守这个规范。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunciation irregularities. 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