New language idea (similar to English).

[0098386]

Neybor
Enouf
Nak
Dept
Dem
Wakyum
Buruu
Byzness

What? Why are you doing this! It's all very silly.
Our language has been around a couple of years now and, barring a few characters on Jeremy Kyle it's still good enough without alteryng wurds.

 

[Melrose]

Those 'new' English words remind me of something. Bork bork bork!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Euro-english:
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 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 sensibl 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

Brilliant; chortled aloud. Very clever and well-written post.

Have to disagree with OP on this one; the English language accommodates change in its structure and adapts over time. The spelling is a wonderful tribute to a splendidly complex linguistic history.

BTW, I enjoyed your history lesson, skunk; an interesting and thought-provoking post. I have read quite a bit in this area, but you put it together really well; thanks.

Cheers

 

[kabunaru]

And I want a billion dollars. You won't see me itemizing everything I'd buy if I had it, though.

And to make American English and British English more separate, I propose to the British to spell like this:

mother---mothre
water---watre
danger-----dangre
quarter---quartre
river---rivre
chapter---chaptre
December----Decembre
diameter----diametre
disaster----disastre
enter----entre
letter---lettre
member-----membre
minister----ministre
monster---monstre
number----numbre
oyster---oystre
powder----powdre
proper----propre
sober----sobre
tender----tendre
filter---filtre
emperor---emperour
error---errour
governor-----governour
horror---horrour
tenor---tenour
terror---terrour
tremor----tremour

 

[kabunaru]

I thought you just said silent letters were useless.

Why do you assume this so quickly?
I actually pronounce the p and I am not retarded.

 

[nakamuramori2]

new language for whom?

 

[kabunaru]

new language for whom?

As a hobby, but I ran out of ideas now so I abandoned this project.