那一刻,我升起風馬,不為祈福,只為守候你的到來。 那一天,閉目在經殿香霧中,驀然聽見,你頌經中的真言。 那一月,我搖動所有的轉經筒,不為超度,只為觸摸你的指尖。 那一年,磕長頭匍匐在山路,不為覲見,只為貼著你的溫暖。 那一世,轉山轉水轉佛塔啊,不為修來生,只為途中與你相見。 《倉央嘉措》

2008年5月23日 星期五

用德文取代英文的陰謀

同事寄來的好笑的信,博君一燦。Tatiana是個俄羅斯裔的美麗女士。

Dear all,

I don't normally clog people's emails, but I found this one very funny. BTW, a lot of my students have already progressed to this level. Have a nice weekend,

Tatiana

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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.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

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