oceanfroggie
Well-Known Member
NEW EUROENGLISH PROPOSED FOR EU MEMBER STATES MAY BE USED TO RESTRUCTURE THE COLREGS
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would be known as (EuroEnglish).
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 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome (ph) will be replaced with the (f). This will make words like (fotograf) 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent (e's) in the languag is disgrasful and they should go away.
By the 4(superscript: th) yer, pepl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing the(th) with (z) and (w) with (v). During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary (o) kan be droped from vords containg (ou) and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations or letters.
After zis fitz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no more trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ja?
Mein Gott in Himmel vy has it ben zo long in komming?
Rule 8 (a). Any aktion taken zo avoid kolision vil, if ze sirkumstances ov ze kase admit, be positif, made im ample zime and viz du regart zo ze ofcervanse ov gud zemanshipf.
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would be known as (EuroEnglish).
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 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome (ph) will be replaced with the (f). This will make words like (fotograf) 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent (e's) in the languag is disgrasful and they should go away.
By the 4(superscript: th) yer, pepl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing the(th) with (z) and (w) with (v). During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary (o) kan be droped from vords containg (ou) and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations or letters.
After zis fitz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no more trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ja?
Mein Gott in Himmel vy has it ben zo long in komming?
Rule 8 (a). Any aktion taken zo avoid kolision vil, if ze sirkumstances ov ze kase admit, be positif, made im ample zime and viz du regart zo ze ofcervanse ov gud zemanshipf.
