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From: Dan Nitschke
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:00

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Deborah Hougland wrote:
> 
> Slave to Darkness wrote:
> 
> > The Future?
> >
> > The European Commission have 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 5 year phase in plan that would be known as 'EuroEnglish'.
> >
> > 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.

[SNIP]

> h..o..l..y..s..h..i..t........
> What can we do to prevent/combat this?

Take a Valium.

> Is it for real or just some message
> trying to express a really abstract view on our decadent western society or just
> some stupid spam?

It's a rewrite of a famous piece by Samuel Langhorne
Clemens. Nothing more.


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Date: 1998/07/21
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