Basic communicative features

The SMCP builds on a basic knowledge of the English language. It was drafted on purpose in a

simplified version of Maritime English to reduce grammatical, lexical and idiomatic varieties to

a tolerable minimum, using standardized structures for the sake of its function aspects, i.e.

diminishing misunderstanding in safety related verbal communications, thereby endeavouring to

reflect present Maritime English language usage on board vessels and in ship-to-shore/ship-toship

communications.

This means,in phrases offered for use in emergency and other situations developing under

considerable pressure of time or psychological stress as wells as in navigational warnings, a

block language was applied which sparingly uses, or frequently omits, the function words the,

a/an, is/are as done in seafaring practice. Users, however, may be flexible in this respect.

Further communicative features may be summarized as follows:

- avoiding synonyms

- avoiding contracted forms

- providing fully worded answers to "yes/no"-questions and basic alternative answers to

sentence questions

- providing one phrase for one event, and

- structuring the corresponding phrases after the principle: identical invariable plus variable.

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