Nordiska ..Still way off topic... or not

[dale r fox]

I believe that this system has already been implimented in the state of
confusion, ( er California ).

Dale F
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:11:56 -0700 Nichols <nicho@lascruces.com> writes:
> 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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