[meteorite-list] The European Commission on Languages (Way Off Topic)

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:12:09 -0500
Message-ID: <001d01c73b1b$686936b0$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

Laughing out loud!!! Thanks.
Jerry Flaherty
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  Subject: [meteorite-list] The European Commission on Languages (Way Off Topic)


  This is way off topic and has nothing to do with meteorites or astronomy, but with the international flavor of this list, perhaps a little chuckle would be in order.
  geozay
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  The European Commission on Languages has just announced an agreement
  whereby English will be the official language of the European Union
  rather than German, which was the other possibility.


  As part of the negotiations, the British 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
  "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 "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 people 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 sensi bl 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.

  Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
  forst plas.

  If zis mad you smil, pleas pas other pepl.



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