Basic English

Ann Althouse ruminates on English taking over the globe.
But before she waxes too poetically on “Globish”, she might want to take a look at Basic English. In essence, the work has already been done.
She might also be interested in an old SF story that uses it as a plot point, H. Beam Piper’s “A Planet for Texans” (AKA “Lone Star Planet”).