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

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Nk,
I lik it wer do I go to sign up to get z bok on speling.
Jo Goz
----- Original Message -----
From: Nichols <nicho@lascruces.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: Nordiska ..Still way off topic... or not


> 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
>