What is Charles Kay Ogden?
{{Infobox person | name = Charles Kay Ogden | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1889|6|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Fleetwood]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1957|3|21|1889|6|1|df=yes}} | death_place = [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Inventor of [[BASIC English]] | occupation = Linguist, philosopher, writer }} '''Charles Kay Ogden''' (1 June 1889 – 21 March 1957) was an English [[linguist]], [[philosopher]], [[psycholinguistics|psycholinguist]] and [[writer]]. He is a well-known [[writer|book writer]] about the [[controlled language]] called [[BASIC English]], which he created himself. He is known for his work with [[I. A. Richards]] on ''[[The Meaning of Meaning]]'' (1923). He also [[translation|translated]] ''Tractatus'', a book by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], into English. == Books written by him<ref>[https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/halloffame/ogden/works/ Works by C.K. Ogden]</ref> == * [[BASIC English versus the artificial languages]] * [[BASIC English Applied (Science)]] * [[The ABC of Basic English]] * [[The System of Basic English]] == References == <references/> ==Other websites== * [http://ogden.basic-english.org/ckobio.html C.K. Ogden biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511220039/http://ogden.basic-english.org/ckobio.html |date=2015-05-11 }} {{Simple English}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ogden, C. K.}} [[Category:1889 births]] [[Category:1957 deaths]] [[Category:English writers]] [[Category:English philosophers]] [[Category:British linguists]] [[Category:Charles Kay Ogden]]