Nosso IOG Janjão (João Vasconcelos) foi quem mandou; o nome de quem escreveu a gente bota (no bom sentido) já já.
English Language & The EC
Here's something for those who find English spelling difficult; Having
chosen English as the preferred EC language (above the protestations of
the Germans) the European parliament has commissioned a feasability
study in ways of improving the efficiency in communications between
various European countries.
The feasabilty study could apply to all INTERNET traffic within the
European Community by December of this year.
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 of 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
reseive 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
konfusions in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be
made with one less letter.
There would be growing enthousiasm when in the sekond year it was
announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henceforth 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 reatsh the stage where more komplikated tshanges 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 people would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing
'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be takn on by 'v'
vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o'
kuld be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors
be aplid to ozer kombinashins of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl
riten stype. Avter Tventi yers ser vud be no mor trublsm difikultis and
evrivum vud find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
Ze drems of ze Fuhrer vud finali hav kum tru.
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