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19 Aug 09 - 03:55 AM (#2703618) Subject: euro speak From: Fidjit 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 |
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19 Aug 09 - 04:32 AM (#2703635) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Linda Kelly Vot is your point mon ami? |
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19 Aug 09 - 08:12 AM (#2703734) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Rasener het iz in het muziek sekzion |
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19 Aug 09 - 09:06 AM (#2703766) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Fidjit 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 |
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19 Aug 09 - 09:13 AM (#2703771) Subject: RE: euro speak From: treewind Hi Chas This should do. Anahata |
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19 Aug 09 - 11:37 AM (#2703832) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Rapparee 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." |
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19 Aug 09 - 11:38 AM (#2703833) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Rapparee By the way, US librarians still spell it "catalog" in his memory (or maybe it's just laziness). |
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19 Aug 09 - 01:24 PM (#2703895) Subject: RE: euro speak From: gnu U catalog? |
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19 Aug 09 - 02:26 PM (#2703948) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Little Hawk 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. ;-) |
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19 Aug 09 - 02:33 PM (#2703951) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Fidjit 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 |
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19 Aug 09 - 03:00 PM (#2703972) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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19 Aug 09 - 04:06 PM (#2704022) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
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19 Aug 09 - 05:23 PM (#2704095) Subject: RE: euro speak From: ClaireBear Try here. Or perhaps here. |
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19 Aug 09 - 05:32 PM (#2704102) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Q (Frank Staplin) Thanks, Uncle Dave and ClareBear, I had missed that bit of nonsense. |
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20 Aug 09 - 03:16 AM (#2704429) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Fidjit 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 |
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20 Aug 09 - 10:21 AM (#2704634) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Rasener 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! |
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20 Aug 09 - 03:03 PM (#2704849) Subject: RE: euro speak From: Fidjit Spelling. Go tell that to my English teacher. Yeah I could read it. Chas |