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I found this EEC proposal from 1996, to simplify the English language and thus improve communications between Governments…

Enjoy ! :mrgreen:


Quote:

"Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European

Parliament has commissioned a feasability study in 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.


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 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 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 enthousiasm when in the sekond year, it was anounsed

that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.

This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print.


"Tn 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 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 peopl would be reseptive

to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z’.

Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'.

Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o’ kould be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'.

Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.


"Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl.

After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru."

/Quote


:lol: 8-)

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