Charles Kay Ogden (June 1, 1889 - March 21, 1957) was a British linguist and writer most prominently known as the creator of a constructed language called Basic English. He is also known for his work with I. A. Richards on The Meaning of Meaning (1923) which describes the so-called semantic triangle and includes the phrase "The gostak distims the doshes." June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. ... Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). ... Ivor Armstrong Richards (February 26, 1893-1979) was an influential literary critic and rhetorician. ... Any theory of meaning attempts to define the meaning of meaning. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The phrase the gostak distims the doshes was coined in 1923 by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards in their book The Meaning of Meaning. ...
Charles Kay Ogden (June 1, 1889 Fleetwood, Lancashire - March 21, 1957 London) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer, now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English, a constructed language, his primary activity from 1925 until his death.
Ogden ran a network of bookshops in Cambridge, also selling art by the Bloomsbury Group.
Ogden, C. K., and Richard, I. The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, 10th ed.
Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).
Ogden said that it would take seven years to learn English, seven months for Esperanto, and seven weeks for Basic English, comparable with Ido.
Ogden did not put any words into Basic English that could be said with a few other words, and he worked to make the words work for speakers of any other language.
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