[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish

Spare us. All the bilingual subway signs in English and Spanish show me that it takes 50 percent more words to say the same thing.

[Yardstick]

Yep, or like in multi-language instruction booklets. English invariably takes less space to say the same thing. Somehow English is more efficient.