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Subject: [Leica] New EU Language!
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue May 30 10:53:56 2006
References: <20060530171308.716.qmail@web25504.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Oh bugger - now I can forget the second installment of reformed German 
writing (Rechtschreibreform) :-)
Douglas

Nick Roberts wrote:

>I think I've lost count of the number of times I've
>seen this over the last 15-20 years. Still raises a
>chuckle, though.
>
>Nick
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>--- Joe Leung <jcyleung8@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>Is this true? If so, how would Leica (on topic) be
>>spelled?
>>
>>
>>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 replaced 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 sensi bl
>>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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