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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 01 May 2008 - Volume 08<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Carty</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:cartyweb@hotmail.com">cartyweb@hotmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="JDpiNd"> </span>A New Englsih for the EU</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><h2 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WriteClique/message/1814;_ylc=X3oDMTJydXA3amFiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE1MzUyNDI2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNzIzOTA0NwRtc2dJZAMxODE0BHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEyMDk3NTM2NDM-" name="119ab29fbb0022f0_1" target="_blank">Future English </a></h2>
<h3 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Posted by: "Jason Chiew" <a href="mailto:jason_chiew@yahoo.com.sg?Subject=+Re:Future+English" target="_blank">jason_chiew@yahoo.com.sg </a> <a href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/jason_chiew" target="_blank">jason_chiew </a></h3>
<h4 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thu May 1, 2008 8:37 pm (PDT) </h4>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Prepare yourselves early for the English of the future!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br>The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English<br>will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,<br>which was the other possibility.<br><br>As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English<br>
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in<br>plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.<br><br>In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make<br>
the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of<br>'k'. This sh ould klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less<br>letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the<br>
troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like<br>fotograf 20% shorter.<br><br>In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to<br>reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.<br>
<br>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always<br>ben a deterent to akurate speling.<br><br>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is<br>disgrasful and it should stop.<br>
<br>By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with<br>'z' and 'w' with 'v'.<br><br>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining<br>
'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.<br><br>Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu<br>understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru<br>
<br>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze<br>forst plas.<br><br>If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.<br><br>Max Motschmann<br>Chief Executive Officer<br>EUROPEAN KONSULTING ASIA Corp. - Philippines<br>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Levity<br><br>I'm surprised that this one is still making its rounds. It must be at least 15 years old now, going back to the days when British people were supposed to be scared of the horrors of "Continentalization" that membership of the European Union would bring, allusion to Nazification being supposed to be the climax.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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