SC - OT OOP Euro-English

[Elaine Koogler]

Funny thing...it looks like either anglicized German or Germanicized
English.....

Kiri

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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