EuroEnglish

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

On the whole, Mark Twain's plan is much better conceived, and should be
recommended to her majesty's government! Notice that right at the
beginning, Twain wants to retain c till an adequate replacement can be
found for ch. The author of the new EuroEnglish essay overlooks this, and
uses the word "change" two paragraphs after getting rid of c. Vil ze drem
bikom a nytmar? Long live English spelling. :-)

Vidyasankar

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Peter Wyzlic wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
> [...]
> >     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 droped from vords kontaining "ou"; similar changes vud of kors be
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
> >
> >    After zi fifz yer, ve wil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.  Zer wil be no
> > mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech
> > ozer.
> >
> >    ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
>
> This is obviously a "remake" of one of Mark Twain's satires. He
> projected a "twenty-year plan" for a better English spelling: