SC - OT OOP Euro-English

barwench barwench at oldenfeld.org
Thu May 4 05:32:56 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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