Check out these sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifon
http://www.unifon.org/htm/unifon%20alphabet.htm Then, ask me why we continue to use such a ridiculous system of writing English. As the article says, no other language except french and english are impaired by this idea some batty academics have that the spelling of words is supposed to reflect its history, instead of how it is pronounced. The only problem I find with UNIFON is that it is done using a midwest American accent. Even in unifon, 'zebra' ends with an A not a U, and 'ark' still starts with A not O. But at least I can fix the problems myself and write with a proper Canadian, er, Kanajan, accent. I can stop fighting with my spell checker over spelling 'labor' as 'labour'. By the way, it does not look like anyone has designed an optimal unifon keyboard yet. tr On 11-Apr-08, at 4:41 PM, Ed Weick wrote: > > Subject: English will be the official 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 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
