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  C. K. (Charles Kay) Ogden. Part Two
Correspondence and memoranda from C.K.O. to the B.E.F., primarily to the Trustees, Dring (accountant) and Muir (Director-General).
Correspondence and memoranda from C.K.O. to B.E.F., primarily to Muir and Dring..
In the prefatory note to the book, Ogden observes that "it is hoped that a larger volume may later take the place of this necessarily brief survey and anyone willing to supply further evidence or suggestions or to point out errors, is earnestly invited to communicate with the authors".
library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/findaids/o/ogden.02.htm   (8473 words)

  
 Charles Kay Ogden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Kay Ogden (June 1, 1889 Fleetwood, Lancashire - March 21, 1957 London) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer.
Ogden, C. K., and Richards, I. The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, 10th ed.
Ogden, by that time, was owner of three shops in Cambridge; one was a picture gallery, the others were book stores.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kay_Ogden   (583 words)

  
 Rambling about Basic English
Ogden studied and attempted to select words that can be used to express all fundamental ideas.
Ogden is of the first school attempting to optimize thought.
Ogden would rather spend the time on the Next Step words that expand content and depth of expression of concepts.
ogden.basic-english.org /ramble.html   (1250 words)

  
 Basic English Found on the Web
Basic English was developed by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) as an International language' and as a system for teaching English to speakers of other languages using a simplified vocabulary of 850 words.
Ogden's own interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of the UCL collection, which contains early editions of Bacon, Coleridge, Milton, Shelley, Minsheu, Boyle, a fine collection of Ben Jonson material including a signed copy of Vitruvius' De Architectura, and rare early examples of cryptography and shorthand.
Ogden was an academic, writing in a different era, and in England.
ogden.basic-english.org /beweb.html   (3229 words)

  
 Needs of Basic English
Ogden expected each person to communicate with the 850 Basic English words plus one special area list of 100 words (science, business, verse) plus one list of 50 detailed specialty words (biology, economics, Bible) for a 1,000 word vocabulary to meet the needs of each individual.
A publication for the general public might include Ogden's growth-path vocabulary to the 2,000 Basic words level, with a proportionally larger wordlist of compounds and word-endings.
Ogden was able to enlist the aid of the scientific community to develop the general science and several specific word lists, possibly because of the interest of existing agencies accustomed to the need for and experienced in the development of international standards.
www.basic-english.org /needs.html   (1492 words)

  
 MASC25
The Ogden Collection was the Library’s greatest acquisition of the 20th century.
Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) himself described his library as “an Orthological library of 5,000 volumes with universal English as a solution to the international problem of Debabelization, and the educational problem of Word Magic as its focus.”.
Another important sub-collection of the Ogden Collection is the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Collection, whose archives the Library also holds, and includes the "Penny Magazine" (1835-45), the "Penny Cyclopedia", the "British Almanac" from 1828, the "Gallery of Portraits" and many publications of the "Library of Entertaining Knowledge".
www.ucl.ac.uk /ls/masc25/full.php?CollectionID=47   (764 words)

  
 Prepositions in Basic English
Here is a brief summary of what Ogden and others have said on the subject.
Ogden calls his list of 21 prepositions, "directions" or "directives".
Next comes a group of 20, readily recognized as the prepositions which Ogden prefers to call directives, and which, you have been using widely already in the analysis of full verbs.
ogden.basic-english.org /preposition.html   (611 words)

  
 Learning Basic English
Ogden's idea of a Panopticon, word wheel, is to let the brand-new Basic learner see a reasoned way to put his thoughts into English sentences.
Charles Kay Ogden suggested radio news be given in Basic English with special radio-news words to be given approval.
The Basic Dictionary - Ogden's support of the fact that Basic is able to say everything at the "pocket dictionary" level of 7,500 words with only 850 words.
www.basic-english.org /learn/learn.html   (881 words)

  
 Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration
It was devised and described in the book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930) by the British linguist, philosopher and writer Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957).
Ogden claimed it would take seven years to learn English, seven months to learn Esperanto and only seven weeks to learn Basic English.
Basic English is used by many individuals and organizations that write for international readerships with large percentages of people for whom English is a foreign language and for native English speakers whose insufficient formal education and reading proficiency prevents them from following complex written language.
www.lowlands-l.net /anniversary/basic-info.php   (293 words)

  
 English Language - MSN Encarta
In fact some of these varieties are so distinct that some linguists suggest that they are separate, although related, languages.
A simplified form of the English language based on 850 key words was developed in the late 1920s by the English psychologist Charles Kay Ogden and publicized by the English educator I.
Known as Basic English, it was used mainly to teach English to non-English-speaking people and promoted as an international language.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564210_4/English_Language.html   (716 words)

  
 Richards, I. A. - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richards was one of the founders of the school of interpretation known as the New Criticism, which stressed an awareness of textual and psychological nuance and ambiguity when studying literature.
He advocated this viewpoint in influential studies including The Meaning of Meaning (with C. Ogden, 1923), Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), and Practical Criticism (1929) (see criticism).
Richards's own poetry included Internal Colloquies: Poems and Plays (1973) and Beyond (1974) Richards was well-known for his creation, with Charles Kay Ogden, of a simplified language called Basic English, which consists of a primary vocabulary of 850 words.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rchrdsia.html   (547 words)

  
 Incunabula Database -- The Bancroft Library
Another portion comes from the library of Charles Kay Ogden, linguist and originator of Basic English.
Other volumes came through purchases and gifts, most notably from the collector of Italian humanist manuscripts Charles William Dyson Perrins, the Dante enthusiast George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon, the San Francisco attorney Alfred Sutro, the advertising executive and book collector Norman H.
Strouse, founder of the Silverado Museum in St. Helena, California, the medievalist James Westfall Thompson of the History Department, University of California, Berkeley, and Charles Atwood Kofoid, head of the Zoology Department at Berkeley.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /incunabula   (644 words)

  
 Ogden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Kay Ogden, a Cambridge University psycholinguist, polymath, and bibliophile
The first USS Ogden (PF-39) was commissioned in 1943, and received three battle stars for World War II service.
The second USS Ogden (LPD-5) is an Austin-class amphibious transport dock.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ogden   (231 words)

  
 Ogden full size   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Charles Kay Ogden was one of the most remarkable figures in English intellectual life in the early twentieth century, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, psychologist, linguist, editor, art critic, antiquarian bookseller, antique dealer, and expert on musical boxes, but remaining an outsider and eccentric.
He also took an independent stand on such issues as women's rights, workers' control, war and religion.
From: P. Sargant Florence/ J.R.L. Anderson (eds.), C.K. Ogden.
www.unipv.it /deontica/Gallpics/contemp/Ogdenfs.htm   (70 words)

  
 TIME.com: Does This Make You Tired? -- Aug. 16, 1943 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When getting ready for the writing of their The Meaning of Meaning, Ogden and Richards made comparisons of the senses of words.
In this process, they made use of some words again and again, came to the idea that the most important senses of language may be given in a limited number of words.
Ogden went on to make up Basic, a language of 850 English words used in their chief meanings, half a dozen rules of use.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,933202,00.html   (640 words)

  
 New Civilization News: Das SimpelDeutsch Experiment
Ogden said that it would take seven years to learn English, seven months for Esperanto, and seven weeks for Basic English, comparable with Ido.
In addition, there is another particularity that didn't exist in 1930 at the time of Ogden: the global exchange of concepts promoted a set of words practically identical in many languages.
In the SimpelDeutsch project, if one starts reading beginning from the first Blog entry (Note, that a BLOG begins at its end!), one should be able to understand basic German (in a written form) in a very short time.
www.newciv.org /nl/newslog.php/_v45/__show_article/_a000245-000130.htm   (410 words)

  
 Opinions of the Wolf: Language Oddities
The news is read slowly and using a limited wordlist of about 1500 words.
Charles Kay Ogden recommended radio news be given in Basic English with the appropriate Basic special radio vocabulary add-on.
VOA Special English, although intended for telling news around the world, has the additional benefit of allowing English to be learned and for pronunciation to be polished.
www.redwolf.com.au /column/opinion/2003/09/language_oddities.html   (327 words)

  
 Strange Brains and Genius
Charles Kay Ogden, Britain's most brilliant linguist, was a claustrophiliac -- he loved to be shut in small places.
Catholic naturalist taxidermist Charles Waterton turned animal corpses into effigies of famed Protestants, and after his wife died, he never slept in bed again, preferring the floor.
Occasionally he would hide behind couches and attack guests like a dog, chewing at their ankles.
sprott.physics.wisc.edu /pickover/strange_fc.html   (2030 words)

  
 Charles Kay Ogden - Wikipedia
Die bekannteste Übersetzung war ein philosophisches Werk: Ogden übersetzte, mit Hilfe von George Edward Moore, Frank P. Ramsey und Ludwig Wittgenstein selbst, im Jahre 1922 den Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus von Ludwig Wittgenstein ins Englische.
Ogden ist auch Erfinder der konstruierten vereinfachten Sprache (Welthilfssprache) „Basic English“, entwickelt von 1926 bis 1930, mit 850 Wörtern und einer vereinfachten Grammatik.
Unter der Leitung von C. Ogden: The General Basic English Dictionary, ab 1940, London: Evans Brothers Limited, ISBN 0874713625.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kay_Ogden   (231 words)

  
 Tedopres International: History of STE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However, not all were usable in daily practice or outside specific fields of industry or science.
Charles Kay Ogden made the first attempt to provide the world with a controlled version of the English language that would be easier to understand.
Ogden developed a system with rules and a simple grammar.
www.tedopres.com /What_is_SE.31.0.html   (844 words)

  
 Verbs in Basic English
Here is a brief summary of what Ogden said on the subject and the list of verbs organized as the Universal Language Dictionary project saw them.
About this Page: Verbs-- Basic English is a simplified version of the English language created by Charles Kay Ogden.
A key to simplification is to limit the number of verbs to necessary and regular forms.
ogden.basic-english.org /verbs.html   (543 words)

  
 MSU Libraries - Resource Selection
"Charles Kay Ogden was best known in the world press as the founder of Basic English and remains known as the senior author (with I A Richards) of The Meaning of Meaning and the expositor of Jeremy Bentham's writings.
Based on the first edition of 1923, it restores the version of the important "Word Magic" chapter eliminated from all subsequent editions.
It illuminates the text by collating it with earlier serial publication, the holograph manuscript predating Ogden's collaboration with Richards, subsequent publications, and Ogden's private correspondence."
www.lib.msu.edu /forfaculty/sel/item/000113.html   (115 words)

  
 Bibliography of Planned Languages
C.K. (Charles Kay) Ogden and his comrade I.A. (Ivor Armstrong) Richards designed and promoted Basic English.
Ogden and Richards wrote a staggering number of books and most of their works are held by numerous libraries around the world.
Ogden, C. The Basic dictionary, being the 7,500 most useful words with their equivalents in Basic English
www.rickharrison.com /language/bibliography.html   (5651 words)

  
 Language Log: Another day, another reprinted press release
Read her article, read about Charles Kay Ogden's "Basic English", and then tell me what's really new here.
Benjamin Zimmer sent email to point out one difference between Ogden and Nerrière -- Ogden could write reasonably well.
In Nerrière's English explanation of Globish, we're invited to "Read the two documents below, in sequence as presented here, and then ask yourself the one and only key question: 'if I wanted to help someone in Zanzibar or Oulan-Bator understand what is the idea behind globish, which of the two documents should I send?'".
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002090.html   (317 words)

  
 Jeremy Bentham / Biography
Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) of Cambridge University, observed that Bentham had,
Cobbett and Richard Carlile put on trial for articles in the Press; Cobbett, at least, was acquitted.
See C. Ogden's introduction to Bentham's work, The Theory of Legislation (1789) (London: Paul, Trench, Trubner; 1931).
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /benthambio.html   (2623 words)

  
 Ogden's Word Wheel
This is an implementation of Charles Kay Ogden's Panopticon, also called a "Word Wheel".
Ogden's Word Wheel as implemented by John Derry v.03
Unless otherwise restricted, the right to use, copy and modify this implementation is being afforded to all by the author.
www.basic-english.org /learn/oww.html   (89 words)

  
 Archives DC/BEF Basic English Foundation (f.1947)
Administrative history: Basic English was developed by Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957) as an ‘international language' and as a system for teaching English to speakers of other languages using a simplified vocabulary of 850 words.
Scope and content: Records of the Basic English Foundation, including annual reports, minutes, policy, subject and correspondence files, 1948-1965; correspondence with Charles Kay Ogden and the Orthological Institute, 1947-1953; files of Joseph Lauwerys (1902-1981), who was a Trustee of the Foundation, from 1951.
The Public Record Office holds minutes and papers of government committees relating to Basic English (ED 52); University College London has papers of Charles Kay Ogden relating to the Basic English Foundation, 1910-1987 (A 547).
www.ioe.ac.uk /library/archives/bef.html   (207 words)

  
 kb
in full CHARLES KAY OGDEN, British writer and linguist who originated Basic English, a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardized means of international communication.
In 1912 Ogden founded an intellectual weekly, The Cambridge Magazine, to which Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and other noted literary figures contributed.
Ogden's efforts resulted in conceptions of language learning that are still productive.
www.d.umn.edu /~dbeard/KennethBurke.html   (19308 words)

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