Re: Anyone for spelling reform?

Christophe>>>>>>
Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> Came across this while cleaning out my old mail (as part of trying to make a
> searchable conlang archive, but that's another story...).  I wish I'd found it
> during one of the "spelling reform" threads, but here it is, anyway, for your
> delight and delecation...
>
        I come across this one approximately once per three months :) , and it
is still funny. I wonder who wrote this text anyway. It must be one of
the most famous texts across the web now, and I think his author should
be rewarded for that :) .
<<<<<<Christophe

I thought it might be fairly well-known.  I find it tends to amuse.

Christophe>>>>>>
        Another question: why do you think this guy speaks of replacing 'w' by
'v'? I thought 'w' had been invented especially because 'v' had two
different values and that it would ease spelling to have another letter
(just like the Romance alphabet introduced j and v as consonnantal
alternatives to i and u, whereas the Latin alphabet had only i and u
-capitals I and V- for both). Replacing 'w' by 'v' would only have one
complication reappeared... Anyway, the text is so funny...
<<<<<<Christophe

The clues are:

The English (stereotypically) unilaterally dislike and distrust the Germans.  We
beleive(d at the time of the original message) that they are (or were) trying to
make the EU into a German-legislated and Bundesbank-controlled federal nation.

The article mentions German as an alternative to English and the new Euro
auxlang.

The stereotypical German accent does almost all of the changes described,
including <w> -> /v/

At least, that's the way I read it.








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