One VOA staff explains that the main goal of Special English is for the listener to understand the content of what is being broadcast, and to make steady progress in English. "There is a fine line between being simplified and simplistic", he says. "We never want to cross that line." So when necessary, more "advanced" English words are used and the meanings made clear, so the stories never suffer from incomplete information.
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