A comical writing about spellings in English...;-)

[Juliette Dalle]

It is funny...

;-))

July

Le mardi, 11 avr 2006, à 01:08 Europe/Paris, Valerie Sutton a écrit :

> SignWriting List
> April 10, 2006
>
> Dear SW List members!
> I am a member of other Lists, including the Interpreters List, which 
> is called the Terps List...
>
> Today on the Terps List someone posted this wonderful comic writing 
> about English spellings and how they could change, and still be 
> logical...
>
> Since our List talks about spellings in other languages, this shows 
> some of the problems that every writing system has...I got such a big 
> grin...I wanted to share it with you...I hope you enjoy it too! This 
> is a joke I believe...I don't believe the European Commission has done 
> any of this! ;-))
>
> --------------------------
>
>
> Date: April 10, 2006
> To: terps-l <terps-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Subject: [terps-l] Just sharing a cause to smile
>
> This was too good not to pass on. 
>
> Read this out loud.
>
> 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- yea r 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 re placed 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 sensibl 
> 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 ON TO OZA PEPL.
>
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