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European English

njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Subject: European English
> > > >
> > > > The European Commission has just announced an
> > > >agreement that English will be the official language
> > > >of the EU, rather than German (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 of new
> > > >rules which would apply to the language and reclassify
> > > >it as EuroEnglish.
> > > >
> > > > Thus, the agreed upon plan is as follows: In year 1,
> > > >the soft 'c' would be replaced by 's'. Sertainly, this
> > > >will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard
> > > >'c' will be replaced by 'k'. This should klear up
> > > >konfusion and keyboards kan now have one less letter.
> > > >
> > > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond
> > > >year, when the troublesome 'ph' is replaced by 'f'.
> > > >This will reduse 'fotograf' by 20%.
> > > >
> > > >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 horible mes of the
> > > >silent 'e's in the language is disgrasful and they
> > > >should eliminat them.
> > > >
> > > > By year 4, peopl wil be reseptiv to lingwistik
> > > >korektions such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w'
> > > >with 'v' (saving mor keyboard spas).
> > > >
> > > > During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd
> > > >from vords kontaining'ou' and similar changes vud of
> > > >kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
> > > >
> > > > After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibil riten
> > > >styl.Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and
> > > >evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer....
> > > >
> > > >ZE DREM VIL FINALI * TRU!!!
> > > >VE VIL AL SPIK LIK CHERMANS!!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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