The European
Commission 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 on to oza pepl.
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I've been more disturbed that my paragraph formatting doesn't hold so it looks like I only write run on sentences. I'm having trouble with my spellcheck in hotmail because it requires a right click and I now have only Macs in the house, and they don't have a "right" click. I am lucky when spell check fails when my wife is around, since she is an excellent speller. I have a Thesaurus by the desk that sometime helps. I misplaced the dictionary. In the end I am grateful for CR4 and appreciate the gift. Certainly it works good enough for what it is.
Thanks, thought it was just me, or my equipment, or related to equipment and software incompatible glitches infused as if the hotmail problem overlay into the CR4 program.
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