---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wm - Ach, ja! I ze dzat u haff bin tekking lessins frum das Gropinator, und vil zoon be muvink nach Kah-li-for-ni-yah... HG "The Boobus Americanus is a bird that knows no closed season." Henry Louis Mencken At 02:11 PM 10/7/2005, you wrote: >I got this from our son, an English teacher. Enjoy. >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 >sensibl 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 > > >Return-Path: <erikblees@yahoo.com> >Received: from rly-yc04.mail.aol.com (rly-yc04.mail.aol.com [172.18.205.147]) > by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id > MAILINYC43-1d34346c66d8b; > Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:03:34 -0400 >Received: from web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com > [68.142.207.143]) by rly-yc04.mail.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id > MAILRELAYINYC47-1d34346c66d8b; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:03:09 -0400 >Received: (qmail 46568 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Oct 2005 19:03:09 -0000 >DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; > >h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; > >b=pzTtoad8XUoQYVujQeuqAnWPuD5ds6mRNkz694TRak6jfUA8tYZcHF2XojL11GrAgJ+t2fQhy7wNJFu4aqtMQfzN3HW/IHuVKCfExjMrm/TSlHTiyeGILP2DL8NuKd8DsIHFzRo28qSwRYzzGL6NBIdgvJSejD9gmXv/EgbqjG4= > ; >Message-ID: <20051007190309.46566.qmail@web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >Received: from [66.177.160.156] by web32212.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; > Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:03:09 PDT >Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:03:09 -0700 (PDT) >From: Erik Blees <erikblees@yahoo.com> >Subject: you'll both like this >To: dad <wimblees@aol.com> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-416142994-1128711789=:46085" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >X-AOL-IP: 68.142.207.143 >X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) > >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 <?xml:namespace >prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />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, p! ublik 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 >sensibl 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 > > >Yahoo! for Good ><http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/>Click here to donate to >the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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