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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General Forum</title><link>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/5.aspx</link><description>Here we can discuss all kinds of other things related to other things and nothings!</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>Re: Simplify English</title><link>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1741.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:59:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b2ff3ccb-892e-4ceb-9a77-e4f6e73f7f60:1741</guid><dc:creator>Cash</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1741.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&amp;PostID=1741</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;i se. so hov vil zis efekt or gaming komunity? vil zey eksept or nev format?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simplify English</title><link>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1386.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:06:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b2ff3ccb-892e-4ceb-9a77-e4f6e73f7f60:1386</guid><dc:creator>Rush Retrospective</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1386.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&amp;PostID=1386</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;ghoti = fish&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;figure that one out&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Simplify English</title><link>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1376.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:18:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b2ff3ccb-892e-4ceb-9a77-e4f6e73f7f60:1376</guid><dc:creator>ParaDOX</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1376.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&amp;PostID=1376</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;vat abut ze leter kombinazun ov &amp;quot;ch&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Simplify English</title><link>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1375.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:06:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b2ff3ccb-892e-4ceb-9a77-e4f6e73f7f60:1375</guid><dc:creator>Troop</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/thread/1375.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.paradisesgarage.com:443/mcweb2/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&amp;PostID=1375</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Should we simplify the english language? Are things too complicated? Well, somebody made a very good point on this topic. I read this somewhere, and never got to the link that it actually came from.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Here it is - the latest news from Europe - actually a few years old. &lt;img class="inlineimg" title="Wink" alt="" src="http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/images/smilies/3.gif" border="0" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The 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, Her Majesty&amp;#39;s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish-Euro 4 short.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the first year, &amp;quot;s&amp;quot; will be used instead of the soft &amp;quot;c&amp;quot;. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. &lt;br /&gt;Also, the hard &amp;quot;c&amp;quot; will be replaced with &amp;quot;k&amp;quot;. Not only will this klear up konfusion, buttypewriters kan have one less letter. &lt;br /&gt;There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome &amp;quot;ph&amp;quot; will be replaced by &amp;quot;f&amp;quot;. This will make words like &amp;quot;fotograf&amp;quot; 20 per sent shorter. &lt;br /&gt;In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. &lt;br /&gt;Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. &lt;br /&gt;Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent &amp;quot;e&amp;quot;s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. &lt;br /&gt;By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing &amp;quot;th&amp;quot; by z&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;w&amp;quot; by v. &lt;br /&gt;During ze fifz year, ze unesesary &amp;quot;o&amp;quot; kan be dropd from vords kontaining &amp;quot;ou&amp;quot;, and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. &lt;br /&gt;After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. &lt;br /&gt;Ze drem vil finali kum tru...&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>