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Zis iz so funi. Zankyu. On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:00:40 +0000 Simon Robert -Cottage <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! > > > > > On 13/12/12 12:07, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > On 13/12/12 11:24, Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Philip Hudson wrote: > >> > >>> On 13 Dec, 2012, at 9:45 am, tom wrote: > >>> > >>>> You say UK spelling is perverse > >>> > >>> Through > >>> Tough > >>> Cough > >>> Plough > >>> Thorough > >>> Thought > >> > >> You forgot the obvious: Ghoti. > >> > >> Gordon > >> > > Meaning fish, no doubt. But then in my family we call fish foe-tee > > because we say it could be spelt photi. > > > > Neil > > > -- Egon Spengler <migel_wimtore@xxxxxxx> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq