Cablemonkey, I saw this and thought of you.........

[neebog]

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 replaced 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 kould be
announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.
This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges 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 eplasing '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.

[WillRiker]

The really sad thing about that is that some people will read it and not see anything wrong with it!!

[CableMonkey]

My hed vud xplod

[Mark Callaway]

on the last paragarph all i see is german


btw "time" and "tim" are completly difrent

[BunnyMan]

Originally Posted by mark callaway

on the last paragarph all i see is german

*Whoosh* What's that? Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's a joke joing right over callaway's head!

[evl0ne]

Was this written by Morty's Sex Slave?

[Morty]

I think I'm living in the wrong country. If I move there, I would look like a scholar!

[CableMonkey]

Originally Posted by Morty

I think I'm living in the wrong country. If I move there, I would look like a scholar!

OK Brainiac...which country would that be?

[Morty]

The article appeared to be written in a European newspaper, magazine, or online article. Judging by the way it started off as "European officials have often ...."

[neebog]

...posted in the wrong forum . Guess I'll post when I'm sober next time.