euro speak

Subject: euro speak
From: Fidjit
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 03:55 AM

There was on here somewhere a thing about euro speak.

Of how the European union was to slowly re-arrange the way we English spell things I t would take five years or so
Firstly taking away the double letters we use etc. etc and changing s to z until it sounded like a German was speaking English.

Anyone ?

Chas

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 04:32 AM

Vot is your point mon ami?

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Rasener
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 08:12 AM

het iz in het muziek sekzion

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Fidjit
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 09:06 AM

Hey my nom de plume is fidjit not yours.

I'm after the whole letter so I can show it to a friend


Now put it back up on the top
Chas

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: treewind
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 09:13 AM

Hi Chas
This should do.

Anahata

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 11:37 AM

Hell's bells, Melvil Dewey (Dui) and Andrew Carnegie proposed this back around 1880.

Here's an example from Wikipedia:

His theories of spelling reform found some local success at Lake Placid: there is an "Adirondac Loj" in the area, and dinner menus of the club featured his spelling reform. A September 1927 menu is headed "Simpler spelin" and includes Hadok, Poted beef with noodls, Parsli or Masht potato, Butr, Steamd rys, Letis, and Ys cream. It also advises guests that "All shud see the butiful after-glo on mountains to the east just befor sunset. Fyn vu from Golfhous porch."

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 11:38 AM

By the way, US librarians still spell it "catalog" in his memory (or maybe it's just laziness).

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 01:24 PM

U catalog?

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 02:26 PM

If wee keep simplifying owr speling u will evenchualy end up with a sort of jargun that wood make a robot vary hapee. Y kant wayt, can u? perhaps wee shood doo away with capitl letrs too.

;-)

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Fidjit
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 02:33 PM

Thanks Anahata
Not really the one I was after, but will do for now.

Mine ended

zat iz vot vii vanted in ze furz playz

Chas

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 03:00 PM

In the Oxford English Dictionary, apologize, recognize, etc. are spellings given. Hence recognizing, recognizance, etc.
Americans correctly and uniformly use -ize.
Many Britons, not properly instructed, incorrectly use -ise for many of these words.

American English is preferred by most countries that have English as one of their official languages.

Sorry, Fidjit.

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 04:06 PM

I think Fidjit was speaking of an "official announcement" that the European Union had adopted a regulation which would bring about such a change, by yearly steps. I'm pretty sure it was posted to whatever joke thread was current on Mudcat at the time.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 05:23 PM

Try here.

Or perhaps here.

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Aug 09 - 05:32 PM

Thanks, Uncle Dave and ClareBear, I had missed that bit of nonsense.

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Fidjit
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 03:16 AM

Right that was the one. Great stuff.

Thanks Clare Bear and Uncle Dave for finding that again.

Have to send it off to my newly found again Daughter that teaches in San Francisco.
For more on that Newly found Daughter story check my blog Family reunion
on my myspace site

Chas

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Rasener
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 10:21 AM

A BIT OF FUN

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Subject: RE: euro speak
From: Fidjit
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 03:03 PM

Spelling. Go tell that to my English teacher.

Yeah I could read it.

Chas