ongolo
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I am born a Gerrmen, and as such had to observe how often our legs been pulled for not being able to pronounce th properly (we try not to lisp after childhood).
Now I found somezing zat may be or may not be true. If it is I feel sorry for you english knights. (A few years ago zey trid to simplifi Gerrmen as well but gave it up after many protests)
The participants' language skills reminded me of a humorous piece passed on by my bilingual, Spanish-speaking son about European languages:
The European Commission has 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 had 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 for 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 replaced with "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 percent 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 the silent "e" in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "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 year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer.
ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
regards ongolo
PS. I do not fetch registered items zat may kontein explosives in case you consider doing away with me.
)))
<hr width=100% size=1>1000 dream about it, 100 talk about it, 10 start and 1 completes it<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by ongolo on 25/04/2004 14:45 (server time).</FONT></P>
Now I found somezing zat may be or may not be true. If it is I feel sorry for you english knights. (A few years ago zey trid to simplifi Gerrmen as well but gave it up after many protests)
The participants' language skills reminded me of a humorous piece passed on by my bilingual, Spanish-speaking son about European languages:
The European Commission has 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 had 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 for 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 replaced with "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 percent 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 the silent "e" in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "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 year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer.
ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
regards ongolo
PS. I do not fetch registered items zat may kontein explosives in case you consider doing away with me.
)))<hr width=100% size=1>1000 dream about it, 100 talk about it, 10 start and 1 completes it<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by ongolo on 25/04/2004 14:45 (server time).</FONT></P>