Beter English

No time to post yesterday, I had decided to do some decorating in the bathroom/toilet and it got a bit more involved than I had anticipated. The end result is great, and I'm very happy. Body not so, aches and pains, from using muscles that I don't normally.

Then there was a double episode of West Wing, I should have taped it of course, so by the time it was over and I finished painting, Walter was telling me to go to bed.

Having some friends over for a couple of nights, they go right back, Neil & I going to the same school,except he was 5 years ahead of me. Then when I stated going out with Peter, Neil was one of his best friends, so the friendship blossomed, with him and his wife Joan.

They had 4 children and so did we,and because they were all just a year between, they all got on very well, all eight of them, playing with the Lego, etc. They have a farm about 4 hours away.

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This is a bit old but I thought it was still interesting...

Better English?

Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliment has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between gov. departments.

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 anomolies. The program would, of course, be administered by a committee at top level by participating nations.

In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would receive this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounced alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of kleikal workers, but typewriters could be made with one less key.

There would be growing enthusium when in the sekond year, it was announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'. The would make words like '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 whish have always ben a deterant to akurate speling.

We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop them and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapened. By this tim we would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vish is, after al, half a 'w'.
Shortly after zis, ze unecesary '' kould be droped from vords kontaining 'ou' Similar argumentsssssssss vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten style. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
Ze drems of z guvermunt vud ffinali hav kum tru.

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Actually it sounds a bit like my Walter does, he often has trouble with the language.

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