Le origine del "proposition" de simplificar le anglese sembla
trovar se in texto humoresc 'Fonetik speling' per Dolton Edwards
ex "Astounding Science Fiction".  Io lo ha trovate in un anthologia
de lecturas anglese, publicate in 1980.  Illo dunque esseva scribite
a un data previe.   Illo multo amusava mi alumnos.
Salutes amical,
Ingvar

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> Från: STAN MULAIK <[log in to unmask]>
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> Ämne: Le Anglese como Lingua Official de Europa :-)
> Datum:  den 1 maj 1998 06:14
>
> Le sequente message es possibilemente le origine del rumor que le
> anglese ha essite selectionate per le Commission de Europa pro servir
> como le lingua official del Union Europee:
>
> LIPTON: Common European Language                             28 Apr 1998
08:51
> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
>  reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
> communications, 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 phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
> short).
>
>  In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly,
>  sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.  Also, the hard "c" will
>  be replaced with "k".  Not only will this klear up konfusion, but
>  typewriters kan have one less letter.
>
>  There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
>  troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f".  This will make words like
>  "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
>
>  In the third 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 speling.  Also, al wil agre
>  that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and
>  they would go.
>
>  By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
>  "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".
>
>  During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
>  "ou", 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 trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand
>  ech ozer.
>
>  Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
>
> :-)