[meteorite-list] The European Commission on Languages (Way Off Topic)

[Gerald Flaherty]

Laughing out loud!!! Thanks.
Jerry Flaherty
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  From: GeoZay at aol.com 
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  Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:57 AM
  Subject: [meteorite-list] The European Commission on Languages (Way Off Topic)


  This is way off topic and has nothing to do with meteorites or astronomy, but with the international flavor of this list, perhaps a little chuckle would be in order. 
  geozay
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  The European Commission on Languages has just 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 other pepl.



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