BASIC GLOBISH
Globish
(from the words "global" and "English") is becoming the
widespread language of the business world that is used among
non-Anglophones. This language was put
together by Jean-Paul Nerriere who considered it "the world dialect of the
third millennium." The
"English-lite" 1,500 word listing is similar to what I.A. Richards
did with 850 word "Basic English" for use in
English-speaking
nations need to put resources into the communications process in order to equal
the efforts of non-natives second language people. It is not fair that all second
language-learning efforts be made by others especially from developing
countries; far better that we learn to
limit our global language in order to help them. Let's keep words basic and simple.
Our
goal is to use "basic Globish" in our Internet Daily Reflections. Some might say that it will be limiting or
"straight-jacketing" subjects that are being addressed. That is why it will take some time to choose
those words, which prove most necessary and which to substitute. American speakers use about ten thousand
words and writers twice that number; people in different professions have their
own technical words. How about defining
additional words when used? The future
goal of limited but appropriate expression is for the benefit of a wide variety
of people who read these reflections and consider English as a second
language. Let's go half way?
The
listing of my 1,500 basic "Globish" words (black-underlined)
is quite similar to the existing Internet Globish listing (in bold letters). Some 195 words that have been added (++) (underlined),
and 195 words that have been combined, removed or substituted by existing words
are in bold (--). When the two
listings are the same, the word is made bold and underlined (XX). When words are combined (e.g. with + in) or
are forms of a basic stem (e.g., inform and "information"), we
include both under one heading.
In
addition, we list four groupings, or a total of 500 words:
76 commonly used American proper names;
127 American foods;
186 other American words such as business; and
111 regional plants and animals.
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The
700+ grey-underlined
major words (in caps) in The Penguin Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary
Form (
Globish Word Listing 1,500
words
A, AN
ABOUT round
about, about face
ABOVE
++ Absurd Absurdity
ACCEPT -s, -ed, -er, -ing, -able "acceptance" Consent
Receiving
++ Access -es, -ed, -ing, Increase, Approach Arrival
-ible, "accession"
ACCIDENT -s,
-al, -ally not essential
ACCOUNT -s , -ed, Accounting, -able Description
-- [Accuse] "Accusation" to fault, charge
ACROSS
ACT -s, -ual, -ually, -ed, -ing
Activity lack of {on, up, with}
of doing "Action"
-- [Actor] lack of Inactivity
++ Active Activity
-- [Activist]
ADD -s,
-ed, -ing "Addition"
Increase Acquisition -al, -ally
++ Address -ed, -er, -ing Request Abode
ADMINISTRATION -s
ADMIT -s, -ed,
-ing "admission"
ADULT -s
++ Advance -s, -d, -r, -ing [progression] Approach, [promotion] Offer
{in, on, to,
with}
ADVERTISE -s, -d, -ing "advertisement," ad Publication
ADVISE s, -d, -ing, -or Advice
-- [Affect] = Influence, touch
-- [Afraid] = fearful
AFTER -wards
= in back of
AGAIN a- and again, say it - Repetition
AGAINST over- [contraposition], Opposition, Disagreement
AGENCY -ies, +
person = "Agent"
-- [Aggression] = warlike act
AGO
AGREE -s, -d, -ing, -able, ably "Agreement",
lack of Discord
mutual a.Compromise,
Assent,
Conformity
AGRICULTURE =
farming
-- [Aid] =
help, financial support
craft
{out Ventilation}
-- [Air Force] "military service"
AIRPLANE -s
-- [air+port]
++ Alarm -s, -ed, -ing
-- [Album] = collection
-- [Alive] = lively
a + live
although, altogether, All
Holy, + most, + ready, +so, + though,
+together,
-- [Ally]
= fellow "Alliance" "united group"
-- [Almost] =
all+ most
-- [Alone] =
a + lone
= single
-- [Along] = a
+ long = together
with
-- [Already] = all + ready
-- [Also] = all + so
-- [Although = all + though
-- [Always] = all
+ ways
AMMUNITION -s
AMONG
AMOUNT -s, -ed,
-ing Quantity
-- [Anarchy] =
no government
-- [Ancestor] =
fore + bearer
-- [Ancient] very old
ANGER -s,
angry, -ed, -ing Resentment bent Irracibility
ANGLE -s, -ed,
-ing, -r, -ular Angularity =
Elbow, slope, grade
-- [Angry] cf. anger
ANIMAL -s, science,
sounds
ANNIVERSARY -ies =
commemoration
ANNOUNCE -s,
-er, -ed, -ing "annunciation'
-- [Another] an + other
ANSWER -s, -er,
-ed, -ing, -able
ANY
-body, one, place, time, thing
APOLOGIZE -s, -d,
-r, -ing
-- [Appeal] =
call for
APPEAR -s,
-red, -red, -ring, "Appearance" = seem
APPLE -s fruit, Food
-- [Appoint] make, give official
++ Appropriate -ed, -ing, -ly Borrowing
"appropriation"
APPROVE -s, -r,
-d, -ing, -al Approbation, Consent, lack of
= not okay
AREA -s Region
ARGUE -s, -d,
-r, -ing, "argument"
ARMY -ies
-- [Around] =
nearly a + round =
round about
ARREST -s,
-er, -ed, -ing put in custody
ARRIVE -s, -d,
r, -ing, Arrival
ART -s, -ful Cunning,
lack in -fulness, maker "Artist"
-- [Artillery] Heavy guns,
gun group
AS
ASK -s, Request
-ed, -ing Ask sincerely
ASSIST -s, -ed, -ing,
-ant "Assistance" Aid
ASTRONOMY -
-cal, -icallly, -er
AT
home
ATMOSPHERE -s Air
++ Atom
-s "atomic"
-- [Attach] = tie, connect
ATTACK -s, -ed, -ing, -er
ATTEMPT -s, -ed,
-ing,
ATTEND -s, -ed,
-er, -ing, "Attention" [heed] Care;lack of Inattention
-- [Attention] cf. attend
++ Attract -s, -ed, -ing, "Attraction" pulling power, allurement
AUTHORITY -ies
AUTOMATIC
-ally [ "automation"
AUTOMOBILE -s
Auto
AUTUMN = fall season, late in life
AVERAGE -s, -d,
-r, -ing Mediocrity
AVOID -s,
-ed, -ing, -able "Avoidance"
AWAKE -s,
awoke, -ing
-- [Award] =
grant
++ Aware
-ness Sensability =
conscious
-- [Away] a + way
Being away Absence
BACK Rear -s, -ed, -ing [cf support],
-er, -board, -ground, -wards
Regression
BAD -ly, Badness, time [untimeliness], times Adversity
example [disreputable person], lands, name
Disrepute
BAG -s, -ger,
-ging, -ged, -man, -woman =
sack, capture
BALANCE -s, -ing,
-d, -r Symmetry,
[counter-]; lack of
BALL
-s
BALLOON -s, -ed, -ing
BALLOT -s, -ed,
-ing = cast vote
BAN
-s, -ned, -ner = forbid
BANK -s,
-er, -ing, -ed, note,
BAR -s,
shaft -red, -ring
BARRIER -s = block + age, stronghold = obstacle
BASE Cause -s,
-d, -ing -less "Basic" -ness
BASKET -s, -ball
BE am,
are, is, was, were, been, will, WOULD, shall, should
++ Bear -s, -er Agent,-ly,
-able, -ing, bore, borne against, out,
through, up, with
BEAT -s, -er,
-ing [repeated sound] n. = Drum, v. = Whip
BEAUTIFUL "Beauty" fully
BECAUSE
BECOME -s,
became, -ing
BEFORE
-hand Priority = in front of
BEGIN -s, -ner,
began, begun Beginning
BEHIND -in back of;
behind time
BELIEVE -s, -r,
-d, -ing, "Belief", true,
false, lack of Incredulity
BELONG -s,
-ed, -ing
BELOW -ground,
BEND -s Deviation
-er, bent Tendency, -ing
-- [Best] superlative of "good"
-- [Betray] reveal, deceive -er
= turncoat
-- [Better] comparative of "good"
BETWEEN = in space
separating two things
BIG -ger, -gest, -ness b-hearted Liberality
BILL -s, -ed,
-ing Receiving
BILLION -s #
BIOLOGY -ical,
-ically, -ist
BIRD -s, -ed,
-ing = flying animals -er
BIRTH -s, Beginning -ed, -ing
High - Nobility
BITE -s,
-er, bit -ting
++ Bitter -s,
-ly,-ness Unsavoriness [resentment]
= anger
BLACK -s, -ness Color, market [illicit business]
BLADE -s, -ed, -less,
of grass
BLAME Accusation, -s, -er, -ed, -ing, -ful, -lessness
Innocence, Guilt
-- [Blanket] = heavy cover
++ Bless -s, -ed, -edness, -ing
BLEED -s, bled,
-ing
BLIND Blindness
-s, -ed, -ing, -ly [blind faith]
BLOCK -s, -er,
-ed, -ing Hindrance, put a block
BLOOD y
-ed, -ing Relation "kin"
BLOW -s, blew, blown, -ing, {out, up = Blast, swell}
BOARD -s, Food, Provision [tribunal] -ed, -ing
++ Boast -s, -ed, Boasting,
-ful
BOAT -s,
-ing, [watercraft]
BODY -ies Parts
++ Bold -er, -est, -ly, -ness
Courage Defiance
make bold = dare
BOMB -s, -ed,
-er, -ing {out}
++ Bond
-s, -er, -ed Subjection; -ing; [securities]
BONE -s, -d,
-ing -less, -dry
BOOK -s, -ed,
-er, -ing Good - Sacred
Writings
BORDER -s,
-ed, -ing
BORN
BORROW -s, -er, -ed, Borrowing
BOTH
BOTTLE -s, -r,
-d, -ing cf. container
BOTTOM -s, -ed,
man, place, side
++ Bow
-s, = bulge
-- [Boycott] refusal to deal with
BRAIN -s,
-less
BRAKE -s,
-ed, -ing Cane-
BRANCH -s, -ed,
-ing [stream] [divergence]
-- [Brass] metal
-- [Brave] cf. Bold
BREAD -s,
-ed Food
BREAK -s,
broke, broken,-ing,-able Brittleness,
[disjuncture] -fast
{at,
for, in, off, out, over, through, up Divorce, disintegration],
with}
BREATHE -s, -d,
-r, -ing Vapor, Touch; take a breath
++ Breed -s, -er,bred,-ing Domestication, Reproduction, Posterity
BRICK -s, -ed,
-ing
BRIDGE -s, -d,
-ing, -hold
BRIEF -s, -ed,
-ing, -ly,-ness, -ing, [compendium]
BRIGHT -ly, -ness [cheerfulness] [pleasantness]
BRING -s, brought, -ing {in, off,
out, over, to light Disclosure, up, with}
++ Broad -s, -er, -est, -ly, -ness Breadth,
-mindedness = wide
-- [Broadcast] Broad + cast
BROTHER -s, -ly
BROWN -ness
Color
BRUSH
-es, Touch -ed, -ing
++ Bubble -s, -d, -r, -ing
BUDGET -s,
-ted, -ting
BUILD