Constructed varieties of English
Constructed varieties of English
§ Basic English is simplified for easy international use. Manufacturers and other international businesses tend to write manuals and communicate in Basic English. Some English schools in Asia teach it as a practical subset of English for use by beginners.
§ E-Prime excludes forms of the verb to be.
§ English reform is an attempt to improve collectively upon the English language.
§ Manually Coded English – a variety of systems have been developed to represent the English language with hand signals, designed primarily for use in deaf education. These should not be confused with true sign languages such as British Sign Language and American Sign Language used in Anglophone countries, which are independent and not based on English.
§ Seaspeak and the related Airspeak and Policespeak, all based on restricted vocabularies, were designed by Edward Johnson in the 1980s to aid international cooperation and communication in specific areas. There is also a tunnelspeak for use in the Channel Tunnel.
§ Special English is a simplified version of English used by the Voice of America. It uses a vocabulary of only 1500 words.
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