Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >--- Joe Leung <jcyleung8@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>---- >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! >>Mail Beta. >> >> >> >> >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>---- >>How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger?s low >>PC-to-Phone call rates. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>more information >> >> >> > > > > >___________________________________________________________ >Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, >easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >