"EuroEnglish" 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 the negotiations, Her Majesty's 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 resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced 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 replaced 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 ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth 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 yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru. Pees! ------------------ Love yourself, as you would love a stranger
LOL, or is that simply L? Oh, this is marvelously stupid. Some of the changes make a bit of sense, but it doesn't really look like they've thought this one out very well. They're basically creating a shorthand version of the language, which could be useful in some occasions, but personally, I don't mind typing a double letter here and there. Instead of all these crazy changes, why not just move to specifically phonetic spellings. Some of these changes are heading that way, but it's not quite right. I meen, iznt it mor understandabal if we wood just spel things thu way they sound? I gess thats just too ezy. (Good to see ya' again, BTW!)
Hey MunKat, av u chengd yo Emal adrs? Al ma posts tu u get retrnd! ------------------ Love yourself, as you would love a stranger
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I just hope the lawyers in this country don't get a hold of this. Can you imagine what they would do to it ? What about a Doctor writing a perscription ? EUROESE ??? No thank you. SMILE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY
where do you have such news from, I can't find anything about your EuroEnglish thing. Anything official.
I initially agreed with the general sentiment (that EuroEnglish was a silly waste of time). However, I've just returned from a week in Germany, and many of the recommendations make sense. EuroEnglish isn't really intended to reform English language in North America (I doubt it would ever take hold in America, though Canada might follow Europe). Rather, the intention appears to be to unify language conventions amongst the various European languages. To speakers of languages, like German, conventions such as 'k' and 's' precluding hard and soft 'c's are common. Other languages have their own complications (eg. the German "fz" is just as useless as "ph" in telling the speaker how to pronounce the word). Their understanding of English is complicated by these discrepancies. Considering there are far more native-language speakers in Europe than English-speakers, it makes sense to adopt these concessions in an effort to speed European and global unification. On a side note, many Americans simply do not understand European culture. Europe is a totally different world than America, and many things that would never work in America work suprisingly well in Europe.
Hey, guys, what a hell are you talking about, where do you have that EuroEnglish stuff from? gimme a source!
