================================================ Subject: Re: NEW ENGLISH From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Fri 30 Mar 2001 21:39:38 -0500 ================================================ Ros, Uv awl tha krazy posts I hav sen. I wud hav a hard tim droping tha e frum mi last nam and speling wurdz a hol lot diferently. Jim Kornet (I think?) I wud lik to se them spel uv korektly tho. ------------------------------------------- Ross Johnson wrote: > Agie, have ya heard about this??? sounds hmmm, interesting! > > > > believe it or not this is actually true.... > > you yanks are next if this goes well! > > > > Mr Mungo > > > > *NEW ENGLISH* > > 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 5 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 ve vil tak over ze world! > > **************************************************************************** > > > This e-mail constitutes a private, confidential and legally privileged > correspondence between the sender and the recipient(s) and is for > information purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a > contractual commitment or confirmation of any contractual transaction. > Any comments, opinions or statements made herein do not necessarily > reflect those of United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad. > -- "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." -- Dr. Seuss To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp