SC - fig recipes please
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Thu May 4 06:34:50 PDT 2000
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>Funny thing...it looks like either anglicized German or Germanicized
>English.....
>
>Kiri
>
Ya reckon!?!
MC
>CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hail the List...
>>
>> My brother sent me this from the faculty news room at our local University.
>> I thought you might enjoy it...
>>
>> Euro-English
>> ---------------
>> 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 Her Majesty's Government conceded that
>> English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
>> 5 year phase-in plan that would be 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 the '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 the 'f'. This will make
>> words like 'fotograf' 20% shorter.
>>
>> In the third 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 leters which
>> have always been 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 peopl will be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th'
>> with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o'
>> be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors
>> be aplid to oza kombinations of letas.
>>
>> After ziz fifz yer ve vil have a rali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
>> mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu anderstand ech
>> oza. Ze drem of an united urop vil finali kum tru!
>>
>> Balthazar of Blackmoor
>> Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
>>
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