This is a notebook and guide for learners of English as a second or overseas language, all over the earth. Most of the writings here are in Basic English, first designed by C. K. Ogden, using 850 necessary words and a number of international words only.
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Fireworks over the Abukuma
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A public event of
sending up fireworks
took place tonight by the
Abukuma River which
goes through our town.
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Summer
I have been working very hard this month,
with little time to put my notes here.

I still have much work to do.
But the end is near.
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writing small letters online
users of the computer system named "unix"
had love of writing in all-smalls.
in addition to that,
unix was good at networking.
so they made new connections by
joining one network to another.
what they made
became stems of a
looser and greater network.
in the 1990's,
the greater net
went round the earth.

now this international network
goes by the name of the internet.
that is why we see in network language
a number of uses in all-smalls.
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writing in small letters
the shorter the distance you go,
the quicker you come to the end.
so some writers put
facts and thoughts
all in small letters when they
make quick notes.
it is like a shorthand.

the invention of the typewriter,
the writing machine with keyboards,
made more writers using
small letters only,
because change from small to great letters and
changing back to small
took more time on the machine.

there was an american writer who made
free verses using only small letters.
he became noted because he
made use of small letters
even for the head letters of his name.
all the time he
put his name like this:
e. e. cummings.
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Da Vinci Is Not His Family Name
The Da Vinci CodeLeonardo da Vinci,
the great man of arts and sciences,
had his birth in a small Italian town.
The name of the town was Vinci.

He became a noted man when he was
living in Florence.
Because he was from Vinci,
he went by the name of Leonardo da Vinci.
"Da" between "Leonardo" and "Vinci,"
if you put it into English,
is "of " or "from."

And he had no family name,
like a great number of men those days
did not.

For more...
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