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Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Euro English

Euro English

Came across this gem on the net - Source / Author unknown!

Read on and enjoy:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become 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 "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one 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 expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Regards,

N


Wednesday, 2 January 2008

Stone in Dinner? Don't throw it in a hurry!

Stone in Dinner? Don't throw it in a hurry!

When going out for dinner, we often find a stone or two and get annoyed about it. Henceforth, don't get annoyed! Do take away the stone carefully and check it out thoroughly. You may just get lucky. If you are wondering why, read on:

Regards,

N


Tuesday, 1 January 2008

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Dear friends,

Here's wishing you all a very happy, prosperous, healthy and peaceful 2008!

Happy reading!

N


Friday, 28 December 2007

Wearing helmets may be dangerous!

Wearing helmets may be dangerous!

For a while now, wearing helmets has been made compulsory for two-wheeler riders in Chennai. Is this necessarily such a great idea to improve safety?

Perhaps not, says Ian Walker, a psychologist at the University of Bath in England. Apparently, cars, trucks, etc. tend to come much closer to a two-wheeler rider wearing a helmet than to one without a helmet, thus offsetting any additional safety that you may get by wearing a helmet!

Read on to get further details:

Regards,

N


Thursday, 27 December 2007

Real ad or scam ad?

Dear folks,

Came across this advt some time back:

Have the following queries:
  1. Is this a real ad for the "intended purpose" or a scam ad released in one or two newspapers just to win awards???
  2. Is there anything drastically wrong in being a small businessman in Karnal?
  3. Do such ads actually give an idea that "aborting a girl child" is still going on???

Guess that we have somethings to think about besides just smiling at the cartoon!



N

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