Re: me, the tourist.

[Steve Dunham <dunham cps msu edu>]

Mark Galassi <rosalia@cygnus.com> writes:

>                  ---------- Euro English -----------

> 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 5 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 with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
> favor 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 3rd 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 disgraceful, and they
> should go away.

> By the 4th yar, 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 kontaiining "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
                                                   ^^^
You misspelled "esi", hope this helps. :)

> ozer.


>                            ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu