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Malcolm:
Thanks for the information. It sounds half baked and a bit confusing.
Didn't the US provide any input?
During the 1920's and 1930's the Norwegians reformed their spelling. Every
year, it seemed, another batch of words were changed. It was a confusing
period for stamp collectors and translators.
About 90 years ago Theodore Roosevelt tried to reform the spelling.
Everyone from grade school teachers to publishers and newspaper editors
objected so strenuously that the idea was largely dropped. A few persisted:
like color instead of colour, nite (occasionally) instead of night, and
check instead of cheque. I think that Roosevelt's spelling ideas were more
user friendly than the Euro ones.
The US and Canada will probably have to follow suit. It will be like
learning a new language. Perhaps we ought to start from scratch and use a
logical language like Greek or Esperanto or the other artificial language
that was developed after WW2 (it is supposed to be easy for most Europeans
to learn).
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: <malcolm.scott@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: new English spelling
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> European Spelling
> Here it is - the latest news from Europe
>
> The News Standard has received this bulletin fresh from our Brussels-based
> hack. The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
> been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
> communications, 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 five-year phased plan for
> what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
>
> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly,
> sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be
> replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters
> kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the
> sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will
> make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
>
> In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to
> reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments
> will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
> deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of
> silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
>
> By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
by
> "z" and "w" by v During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from
> vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
> kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl
riten
> styl.
>
> Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
> understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Issen" <lissen@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Metastock List" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 8:57 PM
> Subject: new English spelling
>
>
> > Last Fall someone posted a message about the proposed new standard
> European
> > spelling for the English language.
> > Does anyone know if this is going forward or if this idea has been
> dropped?
> > Lionel Issen
> > lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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