On a similar note, I heard that our friends the Brits where going to convert
to driving on the RIGHT side of the road. This too would be phased in ----
trucks first.
sorry, couldn't resist, and there could be some LBC content.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Diegobob8@aol.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:59 AM
Subject: EuroEnglish
>
>
> Since the Imperial vs. Metric thread got such a play, I thought that the
List
> might enjoy the following:
>
>
> EuroEnglish
>
> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
> reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
> communications, 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 five-year phased plan for
> what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, 's'
> will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants will
resieve
> this news with joy. Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only
> will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less
letter.There
> will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome
> 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20
persent
> shorter. In the third 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 horible mes
of
> silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the
fourth
> year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w'
by
> 'v'. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords
kontaining
> 'ou', and similar changes vud ofkors be aplid to ozer
> kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl
riten
> styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evri vun vil find it ezi
tu
> understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
>
>
> Bob Franklin
> GT6 Mk III KF3060
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