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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rudy Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: Re: Angenieux > 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 enthusiasm 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 enkourage 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 b no > mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech > ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru. > > -- > Rudy Garcia >
