Re: [Leica] EuroEnglish (new agreement among Euro-countries)

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

You know, the Soviets did a hand full of things
just like this in 1917....

It's not nearly as far fetched as it seems....

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: Pascal <cyberdog@ibm.net>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:;"@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
<"undisclosed-recipients:;"@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 8:02 AM
Subject: [Leica] EuroEnglish (new agreement among Euro-countries)


>This is  regarding the new agreement among the Euro-countries.
>
>EuroEnglish:
>The European Commission has just announced an agreement that English
>will be the official language of the European Community (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 5-year phase-in of new rules that would apply to the
>language and reclassify it as EuroEnglish. The agreed 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 replased 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 replased by 'f'.  This will reduse 'fotograf' by 20%.
>In the 3rd year, publik akseptance 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 KUM TRU!!!
>