19 April, 2005
Stick
is one of the 200 words for things which may be pictured. The root sense of stick is long bit of wood or "thin branch of tree cut to right size for some purpose" (The General Basic English Dictionary). You may make a fire of sticks (The Basic Words). You may have a walk with the help of a walking stick. "Thin stick-like bit of anything" is an expansion from the root sense of this word. You may have, for example, a stick of sugar (The Basic Words). In Basic, this word has nothing to do with something sticky. A stick, in Basic, "has no connection with getting stamps fixed on letter-covers" (Ogden, Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar, 7th ed., 132).
If you are a baseball player, good at giving a blow to the ball, or an expert of music, good at playing an instrument for making rhythms, you will be good at stickwork. You may make fire by rubbing a match or matchstick. ¶ 13:36
If you are a baseball player, good at giving a blow to the ball, or an expert of music, good at playing an instrument for making rhythms, you will be good at stickwork. You may make fire by rubbing a match or matchstick. ¶ 13:36
