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---------- > Fra: burnham <[log in to unmask]> > Til: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> > Emne: New Flash > Dato: 10. juni 1997 19:44 > > This is a late news flash that came over the Internet and it is really good > news for those of us who only speak 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 ozer." > > VE HAV OUR VAYS!! ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!! > > Nancy B Hi Nancy, How terrible, until now I sometimes have enough trouble to spell- and how will it going to be ?? I have to laugh - It is very difficult to translatwe your last sentence - I really hope that`s they don`t make that law. :-)) You have made my day. Regards, Sonia Nielsen Denmark NEVER GIVE UP