RE: What is Simplified English?

Subject: RE: What is Simplified English?
From: "Nuckols, Kenneth M" <Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:24:58 -0400


Geoff explained...

>
> Anthony Hernandez wondered: <<I've seen a few references to Simplified
> English in reponse to the thread "Industry Standards." What is it?>>
>
> Simplistically speaking, it's a specific approach to using a
controlled
> vocabulary whose current implementation was developed by the European
> aerospace industry (details at
> http://www.simplifiedenglish-aecma.org/).
>
> The basic notion is that you won't always have the luxury of
completely
> or even partially translating and localizing a set of documentation,
> and when that is the case, you need to produce a single English
version
> that will meet the needs of all your audience, including many readers
> (often a majority) with English as a second (or third or worse)
> language. In that case, you need a systematic approach to avoiding the
> most common problems associated with English: the bewildering array of
> potential syntax, enormous numbers of synonyms and homonyms, and
> confusion between whether a word is acting (say) as a verb or noun.
>

In other words, it distills the Flight Operations Manual for the new
Airbus Super Jumbo jet to the most important essential:

"Don't crash."



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