Nk, I lik it wer do I go to sign up to get z bok on speling. Jo Goz ----- Original Message ----- From: Nichols <nicho@lascruces.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:11 AM Subject: Re: Nordiska ..Still way off topic... or not > At 09:20 AM 3/21/00 -0900, you wrote: > >Now That Must have taken An Hour to write > >Joe <G> > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: robert goodale <rrg@nevada.edu> > > >> al peeano teknishuns tAlkeeng sO therfour iT musT beEe. > >> > > > Joe, Rob, et al.... > > Rob's effort reminded me of.... yep... here it is, from 1996: > > English Reform > > Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC (now > officially the European Union, or EU), the European Parliament has > commissioned a feasability study in ways of improving efficiency in > communications between Government departments. > > European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is > unnecessarily difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through > and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to > iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be > administered by a committee staff at top level by participating > nations. > > In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' > instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would > resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replased by 'k' > sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up > konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be > made with one less letter. > > There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it was > anounsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'. > This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty persent shorter in print. > > In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be > expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. > Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have > always been a deterent to akurate speling. > > We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is > disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ > as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the > > skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing > 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', > vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o' > kould > be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be > aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. > > Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli > sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis > and > evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the > Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru. > > > > Spooky thing is.... if you look, you'll see hints of this already, and it > isn't gonna get any better. > > g >
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