[philosophygeek]

Has anyone tried to write an algorithm that translates any piece of text into "basic English." That seems like a tractable problem, since it's just mapping all the words in English and grammatical structures into Ogden's 850 words and rules.

[kabdib]

A language translation target would be kind of fun. I wonder how much of modern idiomatic english could be successfully machine translated . . . or even translated using meatware?