* and "Special English"

[rusty charly]

Voice of America, the government-sponsored news organization that has been on the air since 1942, broadcasts in 44 different languages — 45 if you count Special English.

Special English was developed nearly 50 years ago as a radio experiment to spread American news and cultural information to people outside the United States who have no knowledge of English or whose knowledge is limited.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/washington/31voice.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Using a 1,500-word vocabulary and short, simple phrases without the idioms and clichés of colloquial English, broadcasters speak at about two-thirds the speed of conversational English. But far from sounding like a record played at the wrong speed, Special English is a complicated skill that takes months of training with a professional voice coach who teaches how to breathe properly and enunciate clearly.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Our War Presinent uses 1 A.M. Lounge English

[rock]

2. Actually Special English

and for that matter Basic English (with it's 850 words) both have a syntax that is essentially English. And they are fairly comprehensible, something that bush* is not.

[liberal N proud]

3. bu$h's english is the drunken stupor form of english