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Latest post Sun, Nov 23 2003 11:42 AM by deepa. 5 replies.
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deepa  +  13890 Sun, 23 Nov 03 11:42 AM

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU 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 five 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 1 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 ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage 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 disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". 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 yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
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Woodward  +  13913 Sun, 23 Nov 03 07:05 PM
Zis vas reli gud Deepa.
At the beginning I thought it was true! In the end it looks like German or some Estern European language.
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maj, 6 yr 5 days ago
Help, my speller has gone nuts!
deepa, 6 yr 5 days ago
hov vas zat maj?
Pemmican  +  14264 Thu, 27 Nov 03 02:59 AM
That is really cool!!


Btw: Did you know this:
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl
mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe." Smile [:)]
Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003
Regular Member 569
Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus...
deepa  +  14269 Thu, 27 Nov 03 03:16 AM
Wow!! Surprise [:O] incredible! that was too good Pem , thats true, we can recognize word easily even if has a jumbled letters except the extreams.
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