Learning English would be far easier without irregular verbs. Using "ed" to make past and past participle tenses is really straightforward:
work worked worked
start started started
We can easily generalize this simple rule to all verbs:
Instead of:
go went gone
We can use:
go goed goed
Instead of:
begin began begun
We can use:
begin begined begined
Instead of:
bind bound bound
We can use:
bind binded binded
Instead of:
do did done
We can use:
do doed doed
Instead of:
is/am/are was/were been
We can use:
be beed beed
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Global Standard English
There have been some attempts to create a new language for this purpose, which all failed. We should be realistic. English is the most common language for cross-country communications.
English is an international language. It does not belong to any specific country. As people in each nation have right to communicate in their own languages and dialects, it makes perfect sense to have different kinds of English such as British, American, Canadian, etc.
Besides, similar to any other language English also has a lot of complexity in terms of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation exceptions. English speaking nations should have rights to keep all these complexities as part of their heritage.
However, people around the world should not have to pay for complexities of English. Not to mention the confusion caused by multiple English versions.
We should identify:
1) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the learning curve to communicate in English properly.
2) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the ambiguity and confusion in the communications.
As a real case study, Chinese have been saving a lot of time and energy since they chose to use simplified Chinese characters.
I would like to invite everyone to assit me to list the possible changes to English in order to make it a globally superb standard language.
English is an international language. It does not belong to any specific country. As people in each nation have right to communicate in their own languages and dialects, it makes perfect sense to have different kinds of English such as British, American, Canadian, etc.
Besides, similar to any other language English also has a lot of complexity in terms of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation exceptions. English speaking nations should have rights to keep all these complexities as part of their heritage.
However, people around the world should not have to pay for complexities of English. Not to mention the confusion caused by multiple English versions.
We should identify:
1) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the learning curve to communicate in English properly.
2) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the ambiguity and confusion in the communications.
As a real case study, Chinese have been saving a lot of time and energy since they chose to use simplified Chinese characters.
I would like to invite everyone to assit me to list the possible changes to English in order to make it a globally superb standard language.
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