basic english, список слов и др.
Чарльс Кей Огден придумал упрощенный вариант английского - Basic English - в 20-х годах прошлого века. Идея была в том, чтобы он стал интернациональным языком общения. Была немного упрощена морфология, но основное преимущество должно было состоять в ограниченности базового словаря - всего 850 слов.
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There are five main parts to the Basic English word list: operators, things
(general), things (pictured), qualities (general), qualities (opposite)
The 100 operators are:
come get give go keep let make put seem take be do have say see send may will
about across after against among at before between by down from in off on over
through to under up with as for of till than a the all any every no other some
such that this I he you who and because but or if through while how when where
why again ever far forward hear near now out still there then together well
almost enough even little much not only quite so very tomorrow yesterday north
south east west please yes
The 400 general things are:
account act addition adjustment advertisement agreement air amount amusement
animal answer apparatus approval argument art attack attempt attention
attraction authority back balance base behaviour belief birth bit bite blood
blow body brass bread breath brother building burn burst business butter canvas
care cause chalk chance change cloth coal colour comfort committee company
comparison competition condition connection control cook copper copy cork
cotton cough country cover crack credit crime crush cry current curve damage
danger daughter day death debt decision degree design desire destruction detail
development digestion direction discovery discussion disease disgust distance
distribution division doubt drink driving dust earth edge education effect end
error event example exchange existence expansion experience expert fact fall
family father fear feeling fiction field fight fire flame flight flower fold
food force form friend front fruit glass gold government grain grass grip group
growth guide harbour harmony hate hearing heat help history hole hope hour
humour ice idea impulse increase industry ink insect instrument insurance
interest invention iron jelly join journey judge jump kick kiss knowledge land
language laugh law lead learning leather letter level lift light limit linen
liquid list look loss love machine man manager mark market mass meal measure
meat meeting memory metal middle milk mind mine minute mist money month morning
mother motion mountain move music name nation need news night noise note number
observation offer oil operation opinion order organization ornament owner page
pain paint paper part paste payment peace person place plant play pleasure
poison point polish porter position powder power price print process produce
profit property prose protest pull punishment purpose push quality question
rain range rate ray reaction reading reason record regret relation religion
representative request respect rest reward rhythm rice river road roll room rub
rule run salt sand scale science sea seat secretary selection self sense
servant sex shade shake shame shock side sign silk silver sister size sky
sleep slip slope smash smell smile smoke sneeze snow soap society son song
sort sound soup space stage start statement steam steel step stitch stone stop
story stretch structure substance sugar suggestion summer support surprise
swim system talk taste tax teaching tendency test theory thing thought thunder
time tin top touch trade transport trick trouble turn twist unit use value
verse vessel view voice walk war wash waste water wave wax way weather week
weight ind wine winter woman wood wool word work wound writing year
The 200 picturable things are:
angle ant apple arch arm army baby bag ball band basin basket bath bed bee bell
berry bird blade board boat bone book boot bottle box boy brain brake branch
brick bridge brush bucket bulb button cake camera card carriage cart cat chain
cheese chest chin church circle clock cloud coat collar comb cord cow cup
curtain cushion dog door drain drawer dress drop ear egg engine eye face farm
feather finger fish flag floor fly foot fork fowl frame garden girl glove goat
gun hair hammer hand hat head heart hook horn horse hospital house island jewel
kettle key knee knife knot leaf leg library line lip lock map match monkey moon
mouth muscle nail neck needle nerve net nose nut office orange oven parcel pen
pencil picture pig pin pipe plane plate plough pocket pot potato prison pump
rail rat receipt ring rod roof root sail school scissors screw seed sheep shelf
ship shirt shoe skin skirt snake sock spade sponge spoon spring square stamp
star station stem stick stocking stomach store street sun table tail thread
throat thumb ticket toe tongue tooth town train tray tree trousers umbrella
wall watch wheel whip whistle window wing wire worm
The 100 qualities are:
able acid angry automatic beautiful black boiling bright broken brown cheap
chemical chief clean clear common complex conscious cup deep dependent early
elastic electric equal fat fertile first fixed flat free frequent full general
good great grey hanging happy hard healthy high hollow important kind like
living long male married material medical military natural necessary new normal
open parallel past physical political poor possible present private probable
quick quiet ready red regular responsible right round same second separate
serious sharp smooth sticky stiff straight strong sudden sweet tall thick tight
tired true violent waiting warm wet wide wise yellow young
The 50 opposites are:
awake bad bent bitter blue certain cold complete cruel dark dead dear delicate
different dirty dry false feeble female foolish future green ill last late left
loose loud low mixed narrow old opposite public rough sad safe secret short
shut simple slow small soft solid special strange thin white wrong
The rules are:
plurals as usual with '-s'or '-es'
nouns with '-er', such as plant -> planter
nouns with '-ing' such as plant -> planting
adjectives with '-ed' such as plant -> planted
adverbs with '-ly' such as quick -> quickly
negation with 'un-' such as common -> uncommon
compound words such as wastebasket and chalkboard
Сегодня, прыгая с линка на линк в поисках другого совсем зверя, наткнулся на этот список в электронном виде:
There are five main parts to the Basic English word list: operators, things
(general), things (pictured), qualities (general), qualities (opposite)
The 100 operators are:
come get give go keep let make put seem take be do have say see send may will
about across after against among at before between by down from in off on over
through to under up with as for of till than a the all any every no other some
such that this I he you who and because but or if through while how when where
why again ever far forward hear near now out still there then together well
almost enough even little much not only quite so very tomorrow yesterday north
south east west please yes
The 400 general things are:
account act addition adjustment advertisement agreement air amount amusement
animal answer apparatus approval argument art attack attempt attention
attraction authority back balance base behaviour belief birth bit bite blood
blow body brass bread breath brother building burn burst business butter canvas
care cause chalk chance change cloth coal colour comfort committee company
comparison competition condition connection control cook copper copy cork
cotton cough country cover crack credit crime crush cry current curve damage
danger daughter day death debt decision degree design desire destruction detail
development digestion direction discovery discussion disease disgust distance
distribution division doubt drink driving dust earth edge education effect end
error event example exchange existence expansion experience expert fact fall
family father fear feeling fiction field fight fire flame flight flower fold
food force form friend front fruit glass gold government grain grass grip group
growth guide harbour harmony hate hearing heat help history hole hope hour
humour ice idea impulse increase industry ink insect instrument insurance
interest invention iron jelly join journey judge jump kick kiss knowledge land
language laugh law lead learning leather letter level lift light limit linen
liquid list look loss love machine man manager mark market mass meal measure
meat meeting memory metal middle milk mind mine minute mist money month morning
mother motion mountain move music name nation need news night noise note number
observation offer oil operation opinion order organization ornament owner page
pain paint paper part paste payment peace person place plant play pleasure
poison point polish porter position powder power price print process produce
profit property prose protest pull punishment purpose push quality question
rain range rate ray reaction reading reason record regret relation religion
representative request respect rest reward rhythm rice river road roll room rub
rule run salt sand scale science sea seat secretary selection self sense
servant sex shade shake shame shock side sign silk silver sister size sky
sleep slip slope smash smell smile smoke sneeze snow soap society son song
sort sound soup space stage start statement steam steel step stitch stone stop
story stretch structure substance sugar suggestion summer support surprise
swim system talk taste tax teaching tendency test theory thing thought thunder
time tin top touch trade transport trick trouble turn twist unit use value
verse vessel view voice walk war wash waste water wave wax way weather week
weight ind wine winter woman wood wool word work wound writing year
The 200 picturable things are:
angle ant apple arch arm army baby bag ball band basin basket bath bed bee bell
berry bird blade board boat bone book boot bottle box boy brain brake branch
brick bridge brush bucket bulb button cake camera card carriage cart cat chain
cheese chest chin church circle clock cloud coat collar comb cord cow cup
curtain cushion dog door drain drawer dress drop ear egg engine eye face farm
feather finger fish flag floor fly foot fork fowl frame garden girl glove goat
gun hair hammer hand hat head heart hook horn horse hospital house island jewel
kettle key knee knife knot leaf leg library line lip lock map match monkey moon
mouth muscle nail neck needle nerve net nose nut office orange oven parcel pen
pencil picture pig pin pipe plane plate plough pocket pot potato prison pump
rail rat receipt ring rod roof root sail school scissors screw seed sheep shelf
ship shirt shoe skin skirt snake sock spade sponge spoon spring square stamp
star station stem stick stocking stomach store street sun table tail thread
throat thumb ticket toe tongue tooth town train tray tree trousers umbrella
wall watch wheel whip whistle window wing wire worm
The 100 qualities are:
able acid angry automatic beautiful black boiling bright broken brown cheap
chemical chief clean clear common complex conscious cup deep dependent early
elastic electric equal fat fertile first fixed flat free frequent full general
good great grey hanging happy hard healthy high hollow important kind like
living long male married material medical military natural necessary new normal
open parallel past physical political poor possible present private probable
quick quiet ready red regular responsible right round same second separate
serious sharp smooth sticky stiff straight strong sudden sweet tall thick tight
tired true violent waiting warm wet wide wise yellow young
The 50 opposites are:
awake bad bent bitter blue certain cold complete cruel dark dead dear delicate
different dirty dry false feeble female foolish future green ill last late left
loose loud low mixed narrow old opposite public rough sad safe secret short
shut simple slow small soft solid special strange thin white wrong
The rules are:
plurals as usual with '-s'or '-es'
nouns with '-er', such as plant -> planter
nouns with '-ing' such as plant -> planting
adjectives with '-ed' such as plant -> planted
adverbs with '-ly' such as quick -> quickly
negation with 'un-' such as common -> uncommon
compound words such as wastebasket and chalkboard