Hey Steve,
As a College Instructor I can tell you we are way ahead of our friends in
Europe. How do I know this? Because American student have already got this
spelling down pat.
Regards, Tom Witt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Laifman" <SLaifman@SoCal.rr.com>
To: "Tiger List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: Euro English - No Tiger Content
> Tigers,
>
> While there is no Tiger Content here, we all own English cars, are
> interested in European automobiles, and perhaps travel there. This will
> prepare you for you future trips to the EU countries.
>
> Steve
> ___________________________________
>
> Subject: New EU language
>
>
> The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
> will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,
> which is 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 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 newspelling kan be expekted to
> reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
>
> Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have
> always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
> horibl mes of the silent "e" in the language 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 dropped from words
> 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 each oza.
>
> Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
> --
>
> (8-) Maybe not so far from reality?
> ________________________
> Steve Laifman
> Editor
> <http://www.TigersUnited.com>
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