In a more humorous vein, this thread reminded me of this post:On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Phil Murray <pcmurray2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And a closely related question: Why English?
[Martha Rosler] "Our diagnosticians note but may not quite understand that global English is a necessarily simplified language, most useful for communicating simple ideas and instructions. Below the guild secrecy of restricted linguistic codes is the lexicon I referred to earlier, the one tailored to develop the subject position of controlled employees and others.13 A reduced vocabulary is used to communicate instructions, and nowadays these instructions are likely to be in English. No surprise that in the present conjuncture, a simplified international English has been developed as an instrumentalized language meant to enable non-native speakers or relatively uneducated or even just young people to understand and perhaps follow simple instructions."
On a more serious note, it also has tidbits on Simplified English which may have useful implications for some CNL implementations.
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