Re: OT-SPEW WARNING - Spelling
- From: mirjam@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mirjam Bruck-Cohen)
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:09:29 GMT
Thank you Lucille !! for the smily post
I will forward this to somebody Who has been on many Committees, of
the comissie on various Language regulations.
It will make him laugh .
mirjam
>This seems so appropriate today, given the conversation on grammar
>yesterday.
>
>Official language of European union
>
>
>The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
>be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
>the other possibility.
>
>As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
>spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in
>plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
>
>In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
>the sivil servants jump with joy.
>
>The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
>konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.
>
>There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
>troublesome "ph" will be replased with "f". This will make words like
>fotograf 20% shorter.
>
>In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
>reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
>
>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
>ben a deterent to akurate speling.
>
>
>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
>disgrasful and it should go away.
>
>By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
>
>with "z" and "w" with "v".
>
>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"
>and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
>
>Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
>understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru!
>
>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
>forst plas.
>
>If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
>
>
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