Implementing a new language of protest
karlof1 | 22.02.2003 08:36
So lets make an effort to really tell-it-like-it-is and drop the "NO WAR IN IRAQ!" and adopt "NO MORE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!"
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Implementing a new language ... UK ...
22.02.2003 12:13
"No War!" - "STOP THE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!" - "NO WAR IN IRAQ!" - "NO MORE GENOCIDE IN IRAQ!" !
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Posted by Gerhard on 2/21/2003, 6:26 pm
195.92.168.165
Euro English!
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 negotiations, her Majesty 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 reseive this news with joy.
Also, the hard "c" will be replased 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 replased 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 been a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgraful, and they would go.
By the forth 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 year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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Re: Euro Bill
Posted by Neil Rose on 2/21/2003, 8:01 pm, in reply to "Euro Bill"
80.3.32.4
This is exactly what those evil foreigners across the channel are trying to do. Turn our beloved language, the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Clacton on Sea into the horrible brutal language of the continent.
Is this what I went over the top for???
Fog on the channel, continent cut off, that's what we say where I come from.
Yours Faithfully,
Sir Neil Rose (Major Retd)
Tonbridge.
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