[Foundation-l] Fate of "Simple English"

[Ray Saintonge]

MHart wrote:

>>The argument is that since so much of the world turns to English as a
>>second language for information, it would be useful to have an English
>>Wikipedia written in simple, easy-to-understand English, but at the same
>>    
>>
>I recently created a widget where you hold the mouse over an acronym and 
>press some key combination and the definition of the acronym pops up. It 
>reads the acronyms from a QuickBase database - almost 800 acronyms in the db 
>(used at Intuit).
>
>Something like that would be great for English-as-a-second-language folks. 
>An English-to-whatever dictionary widget. Hmmm... maybe I'll just write it 
>real quick...
>
Acronyms are jargon, and should mostly not be a part of simple English.

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