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Feb. 4th, 2003
Research Frustrations
Feb. 4th, 2003 12:05 pmYou know what's frustrating? Finding out that everything I did in the second half of the summer was useless because Prof. Haskell discovered that the instrument didn't work the way he thought it did. So the problem which I solved isn't applicable to the problem which we actually have. We are now back at square one (so far as I can tell), and it seems like there isn't even any useful information to be pulled out of the signals the OCM is giving us.
Email Forward: The New Euro-English Policy
Feb. 4th, 2003 10:38 pmThe 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, the British government conceded that English spelling
had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for
what will be known as Euro-English (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", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst
plas....
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, 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 five-year phased plan for
what will be known as Euro-English (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", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst
plas....
Aw... how sweet
Feb. 4th, 2003 10:43 pmJosh surprized me by meeting me after Fiction Writing and walking back with us. He said he'd been down on Pomona, but wouldn't say why. When we got back he pulled a milkshake out of his backpack. He'd been at the Coop right before I got out of class, because I said I didn't think I'd have time to go after class.