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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (7321)	3/31/2000 10:06:00 PM
From: faqsnlojiks	Respond to of 7442

The "Joe B." bellweather tells the story, doesn't it? <g> Yes, it was a good opportunity this week. I didn't sell a thing, indeed, I bought. Anyway, I'm sure lots of people got burned, and I feel sorry for them. Thanks for the "hold on to the bar" photo...yes, that's what it should be named. :*) -Joe

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (7321)	4/2/2000 6:22:00 PM
From: levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Jed must be one of the driving forces behind this movement The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of Europe, 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 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish": In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with " f ". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd 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 spelling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaing "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leteres. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no more trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!!!! Und zen ve vil take over ze wrld!