[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Lars Aronsson]

Andrew Gray wrote:

> This is quite an interesting thought. The language used by 
> Simple English is (apparently) derived from two defined 
> "simplified versions" of English which were deliberately 
> designed - have there been projects to do the same for, say, 
> French or Spanish, or would we have to do the heavy lifting 
> ourselves?

Work for easy-to-read Swedish was started in 1968, and since 1987 
operates as a government-sponsored foundation, described in this 
Swedish Wikipedia article, 
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrum_f%C3%B6r_l%C3%A4ttl%C3%A4st

On that Swedish foundation's website, you can also find 
information about them in English, French, German, and Spanish,
http://www.lattlast.se/

(Le Centre Facile à Lire; La fundación sueca de nombre Centro de 
Lectura Fácil)

Someone should compile an article on en.wikipedia about such 
initiatives in various countries.  The article [[Simple English]] 
branches out to various special forms, but doesn't provide the 
international overview of the topic.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se