EuroSpeak

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 the keyboards kan have one fewer letters.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaked with a "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 kontaing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, vords vil hab sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem finali kum tru.

Und afterze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Anti-Love Song

There are too many songs about love. Not enough about hate. :) So, here's me being part of the solution. For anyone who knows me, this isn't about anyone in particular.

Go away (use the Come What May melody)

Never knew I could feel like this,
Like I'll never see the sky again.
Want to vanish into the mist,
Every day I'm dyin' more and more.

Listen to my heart, can you hear it bleed?
Telling you that you've got less than I need.
Seasons have changed, spring to winter.
I can't love you. So go, I need some time.

Go away. Go away. I can't love you, so go: I need some time.

Suddenly the world's just not a perfect place.
Suddenly I weep at the thought of your face.
Suddenly my life just seems such waste.
I can't stay here with you.

And there's a mountain too high,
A river too wide.
Call out my name, I won't be there by your side.
Storm clouds are gatherin', and stars will collide,
I can't love you. So go, I need some time.

Go away. Go away. I can't love you, so go, or else I'll die.

Book Tag

All right, so I just got "tagged" by Ms. Atomicus (see my friends at the right). I think the concept is... odd... but the content of the game is fun, so here goes.

1. Number of books that I own.

Probably around 300 that belong to me. I've honestly lost count, although I plan to make up a catalogue list in the near future.

2. Last Book Bought:

I recently acquired Man on Fire and Machiavelli's The Prince. I technically didn't pay for them. The last one I actually paid for was a textbook for class.

3. Last Book I Read:

Troubling a Star, by L'Engle.

Five Books that mean a lot to me:

Dune Series.
Ender Series.
Invitation to the Game, by Monica Hughes.
Lord of the Rings.
A Ring of Pure and Endless Light, by L'Engle.

Of course, these change, but that's the list right now.