1954/Gowers
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Revisions [edit]
- Plain Words (1948) at the request of Sir w: Edward Bridges (then head of the Civil Service)
- The ABC of Plain Words (1951)
- The Complete Plain Words (1954)
- rev. Bruce Fraser (1973)
- rev. Sidney Greenbaum & Janet Whitcut (1986)
Excerpts [edit]
- The purpose of this book is to help officials in their use of written English as a tool of their trade. (1958)
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Chronology [edit]
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1953). Philosophical Investigations. Blackwell Publishing. [+]
- Hayakawa, S. I. (1949). Language in Thought and Action. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949. [+]
- Gowers, Ernest (1948). Plain Words.
- Orwell, George (1946). "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, vol. 13, no. 76 (April), 252-265. [+]
- Huxley, Aldous (1940). Words and Their Meanings. The Ward Ritchie press, 1940. [+]
- Bernal, J. D. (1939). The Social Function of Science. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. [+]
- Wells, H. G. (1938). World Brain. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. [+]
- Richards, I. A. (1936). The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press. [+]
- Korzybski, Alfred (1933). Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. 5th ed., Institute of General Semantics, 1994. [+]
- Ogden, C. K. (1930). Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. London: Paul Treber. [+]
- Ogden, C. K. & I. A. Richards (1923). The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. [+]
- Welby, Victoria Lady (1911). Significs and Language: The Articulate Form of Our Expressive and Interpretive Resources. H. Walter Schmitz, ed., John Benjamins, 1985. [+]
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| The shade of the bar looks invariant in isolation but variant in context, in (favor of) sharp contrast with the color gradient background, hence an innate illusion we have to reasonably interpret and overcome as well as the mirage. Such variance appearing seasonably from context to context may not only be the case with our vision but worldview in general in practice indeed, whether a priori or a posteriori. Perhaps no worldview from nowhere, without any point of view or prejudice at all!
Ogden & Richards (1923) said, "All experience ... is either enjoyed or interpreted ... or both, and very little of it escapes some degree of interpretation." H. G. Wells (1938) said, "The human individual is born now to live in a society for which his fundamental instincts are altogether inadequate." |
