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Latest post Sat, Jun 7 2008 3:25 PM by Dew 2007. 6 replies.
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ISU_152  +  523819 Fri, 06 Jun 08 02:54 PM
    The  European  Commission  have  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 "EuroEnglish".

     In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this  will
make the sivil servants jump for 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 the "f". This will make  words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.

     In  the  third  year, publik  akseptanse  of  the new spelling  kan  be
expekted 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 4th 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 year,  ve  vil hav a  realy sensibl
riten styl. Zer vil be  no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil  find it
ezi to understand each ozer

     ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

 

But all jokes have part of truth - this variant of english like me better

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Full Member 197
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Zerox  +  524146 Sat, 07 Jun 08 12:10 PM
Heh, the last version seems awfully lot like a pidgin English to me. 

I sure hope we won't go that far. 

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Full Member 295
-It is rational that the irrational contradicts with the rational-
Dew 2007, 1 yr 168 days ago
I was first scared when I failed to understand some words... A nightmare!!!
ISU_152  +  524181 Sat, 07 Jun 08 02:48 PM
but in final variant i can write a word as it pronounced, without –ea-  , -th- and other nightmare hieroglyph.

Thanks to st. Kirill for russian alphabet  Smile
Dew 2007, 1 yr 168 days ago
Vi kant bi  very glad. Ze vold iz so kamplikated, frendz!
ISU_152, 1 yr 168 days ago
 Big Smile
Dew 2007, 1 yr 168 days ago
Its no gud lafin, sach lif wil kam sun!
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