[Tech1] Language

[Keith Wicks]

Agreed that English spelling does have room for improvement. I'm reminded
of the word *ghoti*, pronounced *fish —* *gh* as in cough, *o* as in women
and *ti* as in nation.
KW

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 12:09, dave.mdv via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
wrote:

> The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will
> be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which
> was the other possibility.
>
> As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
> English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-
> year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
>
> 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 "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% shorter.
>
> In the 3rd 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 ben a deterent to akurate speling.
>
> Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag
> is disgrasful and it should go away.
>
> By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
> with "z" and "w" with "v".
>
> During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
> "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
>
> Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU
> understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
>
> Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
> forst plas.
>
> If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
>
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