Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272945AbTHEXdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:33:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272947AbTHEXdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:33:11 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:777 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272945AbTHEXdJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:33:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:33:08 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Euro-English Message-ID: <20030805233308.GD928@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1841 Lines: 58 The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European nation 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 become 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 one 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 enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl. ----- End forwarded message ----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/