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<borolad@myowseintheboro.org> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:53:40 +0100, "patrickp"
> <patrickp@5acoustibop.co.uk - take five to email me> wrote:
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> >Couldn't agree with you more, BoroLad. The other thing that people are
> >always flaming for is poor spelling or English (or, presumably, whatever
> >language happens to be the medium). My take is that anyone who gets
upset
> >about posting rules, grammar, spelling etc, is just going to miss out on
on
> >a lot of help, information, fun and generally nice people. Well, if you
> >_want_ to be a loser...
>
> >The only things I don't like to see on Usenet are excessive bad language
and
> >pointless political (in the loosest sense, as in threads I've seen here)
> >debates in groups where they're not appropriate. Both those contradict
what
> >I see as the basic rule of Usenet: respect the people you're talking
with,
> >at least until they demonstrate their unworthiness by disrespecting
others.
>
> >patrickp
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> My spelling as many will agree is pretty dismal, partly due that is to
> my government
insistence on implimenting the ' Euro-English' clause
> in the recent negotiations with Brussels. For those who don't know
> this incremental plan I reproduce as follows :
>
> "The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
> English will be the official language of the European nation rather
> than German which was the other possibility.
>
> As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's 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 the "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 the "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 peopl 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".
>
> Hopi zis mad yu smil, patrickp !
>
> BoroLad
Er, you weren't swearing there, were you, bl? ;-)
patrickp
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