[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project. inmediatly

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> There is no single standardized Simple English. Simple.wp, last time I
> checked, didn't have a concrete defined vocabulary... but that was a
> while ago, so it may have one now.
>
>   
This could be said about any language, but in the case of a "simple" 
language we have the luxury of being able to define the simple 
vocabulary as, for example, the 1,000 most common words in the 
language.  Even if we dispute whose statistics we use to find the 1,000 
most common words, most such lists will have a considerable degree of 
overlap.

In some respects we can take the Japanese historical approach to 
"official" Kanji as an example.  There is even a gradation there of 
which characters should be learned at various stages of language learning.

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