'ello, world. Stumbled upon this site recently, and figured that I'd spent $3 on stranger things than a membership at a strange website that actually seems to have a modicum of....wait for it....intelligence! yes! there is intelligent life on the internet! thank you jesus...i'll be back later tonite. i'll leave you with a missive from my friend Byron. Made for a good few days of pondering for me :
The echo of a thousand voices Thunders in our heads
As the melodies there engendered Whispers of the fathomless mystery of the soul,
Piercing us with these same passions That characterize our essence.
We are the instruments.
Our souls, The symphony of our desire.
Like petals on the summer breeze,
By this desperate cry we are animated,
A marionette on astral strings As the bright moon wanes.
Slipping into the darkling distance,
It crystallizes into a single plaintive song dimly wailing its message:
We will die soon, you and I, And join the voices on the other side.
The echo of a thousand voices Thunders in our heads
As the melodies there engendered Whispers of the fathomless mystery of the soul,
Piercing us with these same passions That characterize our essence.
We are the instruments.
Our souls, The symphony of our desire.
Like petals on the summer breeze,
By this desperate cry we are animated,
A marionette on astral strings As the bright moon wanes.
Slipping into the darkling distance,
It crystallizes into a single plaintive song dimly wailing its message:
We will die soon, you and I, And join the voices on the other side.
European officials have pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult. For example: cough, plough, here, hear, bow, bough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased program of changes to iron out these anomalies. The program would be administered by a committee of top-level staff chosen by the participating nations.
In the first year, for example, the committee might suggest using "s" instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. The hard "c" could then by replased by "k" sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. This would not only klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters and keyboards kould be made with one less letter, a signifikant savings.
In the second year, bekause of growing enthusiasm, it kould be announsed that the troublesome "ph" would henseforth be written "f". This would make words like "fotograf" twenty persent shorter in print.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend.
By this time it would be four years sins the skem began and people would be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing "th" by "z". Perhaps zen ze funktion of "w" kould be taken on by "v", vitsh is, after al, half a "w".
Finaly, ze unesesary "o" kuld be dropd from vords kontaining "ou". Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer konbinations of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer aftr yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten stil.
Aftr tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrion vud fin it ezi tu understan esh ozer. Ze drems of ze EU vud finali kum tru.