To: Zeitgeist who wrote (16 ) 8/8/1998 10:43:00 PM From: esterina Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32
Something cute sent to me by a Mercedez Dealer: Merging Preference ------------------ Directors at Daimler-Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Directors at Chrysler conceeded that English spelling has some room for improvements and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan. In the first year, "S" will be used instead of the soft "C". also the hard"C" will be replaced with "K". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers kan have one less letter. There will be a growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "PH" will be replaced by "F". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third year, Daimler-Khrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a determent to akkurate spelling. Also, all will agree that the horrible mess of silent "e's" in the language is disgraseful, and they would go. By the fourth year, people will be reseptive to steps such a replasing "TH" with "Z" and "W" by "V". During ze fifz year, ze unesessary "o" kan be dropped from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vuld of kors be applied to all ozer kombinations of letters. After zis fiftz year, ve vill hav a really sensible vriten style. Zere vill be no more trubls or diffikultis and employee's vill find it easy to komunikat viz each ozer. Ov kourse all suppliers vill be expekted to svitsh to zis for all business kommunikation via Daimler-Khrysler. ZE DREAM VILL FINALLY KOME TRUE.