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Dan ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: FW: European Union commissioners announcement Author: Stephen Stegner <[email protected]> at CCGATE List-Post: [email protected] Date: 8/14/97 1:19 PM > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > 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 > emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be > replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent > 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 enkorage 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 > of > kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, > ve > vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or > difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze > drem > vil finali kum tru ! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > The following is an attached File item from cc:Mail. It contains information that had to be encoded to ensure successful transmission through various mail systems. To decode the file use the UUDECODE program. --------------------------------- Cut Here --------------------------------- begin 644 rfc822.txt M4F5C96EV960Z(&)Y(&-C;6%I;"!F<F]M(&9W+65S,#4N:&%C+F-O;0T*1G)O M;2!S<W1E9VYE<D!M:6-R;W-O9G0N8V]M#0I8+45N=F5L;W!E+49R;VTZ('-S M=&5G;F5R0&UI8W)O<V]F="YC;VT-"E)E8V5I=F5D.B!F<F]M(&UA:6PT+FUI M8W)O<V]F="YC;VT@*%LQ,S$N,3`W+C,N,CE=*0T*("`@("`@("`@(&)Y(&9W M+65S,#4N:&%C+F-O;2`H."XX+C0O."XX+C0I('=I=&@@15--5%`-"B`@("`@ M(&ED($Y!03`U,C0S(&9O<B`\9&5T96YI;G1Y0&-C9V%T92YH86,N8V]M/CL@ M5&AU+"`Q-"!!=6<@,3DY-R`Q,SHQ,CHP-R`M,#<P,"`H4$14*0T*4F5C96EV M960Z(&)Y(&UA:6PT+FUI8W)O<V]F="YC;VT@=VET:"!);G1E<FYE="!-86EL M(%-E<G9I8V4@*#4N,"XQ-#4Y+C(W*0T*("`@(&ED(#Q1-5I'3$(Y-#X[(%1H M=2P@,30@075G(#$Y.3<@,3,Z,30Z-#,@+3`W,#`-"DUE<W-A9V4M240Z(#PP M,4$T,D5$13A!-D-#1C$Q.$8S13`P.#`U1D0T04,U,S`R-CDX040Y0%)%1"TW M-BU-4T<N9&YS+FUI8W)O<V]F="YC;VT^#0I&<F]M.B!3=&5P:&5N(%-T96=N M97(@/'-S=&5G;F5R0&UI8W)O<V]F="YC;VT^#0I4;SH@(B=R87=`=&,N9FQU M:V4N8V]M)R(@/')A=T!T8RYF;'5K92YC;VT^+`T*("`@("`@("`B)W-K965G M0'1C+F9L=6ME+F-O;2<B#0H@("`@(#QS:V5E9T!T8RYF;'5K92YC;VT^+`T* M("`@("`@("`B)V%U<VU`=&,N9FQU:V4N8V]M)R(@/&%U<VU`=&,N9FQU:V4N M8V]M/@T*4W5B:F5C=#H@1E<Z($5U<F]P96%N(%5N:6]N(&-O;6UI<W-I;VYE M<G,@86YN;W5N8V5M96YT#0I$871E.B!4:'4L(#$T($%U9R`Q.3DW(#$S.C$U M.C0W("TP-S`P#0I8+5!R:6]R:71Y.B`S#0I8+4UA:6QE<CH@26YT97)N970@ <36%I;"!397)V:6-E("@U+C`N,30U.2XR-RD-"@`` end
