Re: EuroEnglish...

[Kevin McLauchlan <KMcLauchlan -at- CHRYSALIS-ITS -dot- COM>]

Um, that (below) looks like a fairly blatant rip-off.  Shouldn't it have
been attributed?

It's been many decades since I encountered that essay in
a grade-school textbook, but I'll swear it was very old, even
then, having been written by [perhaps] Twain or Leacock.

Anybody remember?


Kevin McLauchlan
kmclauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com    (aka  kevinmcl -at- netrover -dot- com)
Techy writer, duffer skydiver, full-time unrepentant chocoholic

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathena, Michael [SMTP:MMathena -at- SPHERECOM -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:27 PM
> Subject:      EuroEnglish...
>
> > Try zis one !
> >
> > Subject:      EuroEnglish...
> >
> > The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
> > been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
> > communications, 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 phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish ("Euro"
> > for short).
> >
> > In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
> > Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the
> > hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up
> > konfusion, but typewriters kan have one fewer letter.
> >
> > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
> > troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
> > "fotograf" 20 per sent 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 enkourage the removal of double letters,
> > which have  always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil
> > agre that the  horible mes silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful,
> > and they would go.
> >
> > By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
> > "th" by "z" and "w" by "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 trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil
> > find it ezi tu  understand ech ozer.
> >
> > Ze drem vil finali kum tru :-)
> >
> >
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