SIMPLE ENGLISH, TRUE, AND, YET, NOT QUITE SO SIMPLE
However, by the words 'simple English' is not quite meant what is generally thought to be its meaning. It actually means straight, direct use of language without unnecessary convolutions. Unfortunately, the common perception often is that 'simple English' means pedestrian use of the language without colour or adornment of any sort. The simplicity of style must be natural, yet, full of the gorgeous hues of all of life. Simplicity does not imply insipidness of literary presentation. Rather, it is the simplicity of Nature at its fundamental level, the simplicity of the highest flights of thought and culture that universally appeals to prophet and pariah, embracing all within its ambit and excluding none through complexity of composition that confounds comprehension. Hence, 'simple English' is simple with a difference.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Percy Bysshe Shelley
However, by the words 'simple English' is not quite meant what is generally thought to be its meaning. It actually means straight, direct use of language without unnecessary convolutions. Unfortunately, the common perception often is that 'simple English' means pedestrian use of the language without colour or adornment of any sort. The simplicity of style must be natural, yet, full of the gorgeous hues of all of life. Simplicity does not imply insipidness of literary presentation. Rather, it is the simplicity of Nature at its fundamental level, the simplicity of the highest flights of thought and culture that universally appeals to prophet and pariah, embracing all within its ambit and excluding none through complexity of composition that confounds comprehension. Hence, 'simple English' is simple with a difference.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Percy Bysshe Shelley
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