The case system for nouns and pronouns, grafted onto English despite the lack of any separate forms for nouns but the possessive, You can get rid of the "but the possessive". Thank you kindly, sir. (separate point:) I almost said

I remember reading some years ago that Catapillar (the track-laying vehicle manufacturer) developed a simple English language for non-English speaking engineers. Here we see one of the problems with the dumbing-down movement. Caterpillar, Inc.