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Carola, thanks a milion! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:20 PM, carola renz wrote: > Hi, > > > I received this mail as a forward from my brother this morning. I thought > some of you might like it, too. > > Best regards > > Carola > > > Euro Language > The European Commission 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. > > > --- > > > [This message contained attachments that have been removed.] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. -- Unknown > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To join/leave, use the form at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options > This list is archived at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html > > -- With best wishes, -Dr. Taher Kagalwala My other homes: http://drtaherforkids.com http://www.writing.com/authors/drtaher http://www.allexperts.com/expert.cgi?m=1&catID=1429&expID=47632 http://drtahersworld.blogspot.com Click here to join an earning site: http://www.agloco.com/r/BBDD8855 Purchase and read my book: "Child Care: From Birth to Eighteen. A Comprehensive Book on the Art of Parenting". Learn one skill each year, solve one quiz each day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. -- Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To join/leave, use the form at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options This list is archived at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html
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