>Lay off on James, at least you can understand what he's trying to
>say.
>Reading phonetically isn't that hard.
>-Malcolm
>
If you have difficulty with phonetics, you may be interested in the
following.
Peter H
TR6 CF13471U
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Proposed Changes to the English Language EEC Directive:
1997/10/56381/2
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the
European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study to determine
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 are all spelt similarly yet pronounced differently. 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 sites 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 was
announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.
This would make words such as 'fotograf' twenty persent 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 leters
which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's and 'h's in the
languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read
and writ as though nothing ad apend. By this tim it would be four
years sins the sken began and peopl 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, alf a 'w'. Shortly aftr zis ze unesesary
'o' kould be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud
of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer aftr yer, ve vud eventuli av a reli sensibl
riten styl. Aftr tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and
evrivun vud find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer. Ze drems of ze Guvrmnt
vud finali av kum tru.
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