Euro English, Blakkheim must be a real trendsetter :)

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Ok, sorry if this is a little off topic, but I got this forward from a friend and I thought it was funny to post it here (well after that little discussion about Blakky's"Swenglish" )

enjoy:
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 Her Majesty's Government conceded
> that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
> accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be 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 the '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 replased with the 'f'. This
> will make words like 'fotograf' 20% 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 leters which
> have always been 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 peopl will
> be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w'
> with 'v'. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' be dropd
> from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors
> be aplid to oza kombinations of letas. After ziz fifz yer ve
> vil have a rali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl
> or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu anderstand ech
> oza. Ze drem of an united urop vil finali kum tru!
 
I will never submit to that sort of spelling :err: :err: Nor to the fact that Europe should have a common language....The Germans and French would never agree to that. Especially the French :tickled:

Europe is not a country...it's a continent
 
I think it's fucking horrible that they're even going to try to implement any single, but especially English. What happens when the US isn't the global power anymore, and English becomes less useful on a global scale?
 
ott0 said:
Uhm, it's a joke..

I kinda figured that. But it's a well-written one, I like how it implements the changes it talks about. Just take my first post as hypothetical. I would think it was horrible if they DID try to do that, or anything like it
 
Well, I'm all in favor of getting rid of 'c'. It's useless. 'Q' can go, too. A lot of those changes would make sense, but I'd say that if you were going that far, you should also get rid of 'th' and bring back the two old runic letters that represented both sounds that 'th' is used for now. Anyway, I understand that it was just a joke; I enjoyed it. I just happened to agree with a lot of it (except the part about it being for the E.U.'s purposes, and being called 'Euro-English' -- it should just be called 'English', or, at most, 'Neo-English', hehe).

=P