prathapml Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 There's probably very few people who don't use Microsoft's Word for their text formatting needs... Ever wondered what would happen if you ran your file through the spell-check and accepted every alternative it gives you?Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Eye halve a spelling chequerIt came with my pea seaIt plainly marques four my revueMiss steaks eye kin knot sea.Eye strike a key and type a wordAnd weight four it two sayWeather eye am wrong oar writeIt shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maidIt nose bee fore two longAnd eye can put the error riteIts rarely ever wrong.Eye have run this poem threw itI am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect in it's weighMy chequer tolled me sew.And then this. How frequently have you moaned that English is supposed to have a standardised form of speech and spelling, instead of how its mangled all over the world now?The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU 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 five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".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 favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 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 ekspekted 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 speling. 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 fourth year, 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 kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
mark Posted February 15, 2005 Posted February 15, 2005 And then this. How frequently have you moaned that English is supposed to have a standardised form of speech and spelling, instead of how its mangled all over the world now? Yes, I've seen websites dedicated to this theme and it can be funny and embarassing but what happens here at home (the US) is humiliating. Misspellings by all others, gladly accepted here. Sounds like in the new spelling scheme, that the German language wins, or at least the accent.
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