The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of the “k”, Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”, making words like “fotograf” 20% shorter.
In the third 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 horible mes of the silent “e” is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl 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 similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!
Herr Schmidt
Krapanj is not just an Island, it is a village, and it has its own rules that have evolved over centuries.
The locals made this Island, the old houses are built from stone, that was collected from the surrounding islands. The infrastructure “water electric etc.” was paid for by the islanders – not the state. The porat and pathways were built and funded by the Krapanj families.
There was no rubbish collection, everyone had to take there own rubbish across on the ferry.
The influx of city people buying holiday homes on Krapanj, has created a divide, those who follow the local customs and those who try to imposed the state rules.
Krapanj now comes under the jurisdiction of Sibenik, this has created many legal abnormalities with regards to properties and boundaries – many houses that have been here for hundreds of years – do not exist in the state records, many more are still registered in the name of an ancestor. Getting state permission to do anything to your property is still at best difficult, but more likely impossible.
I showed this picture to the Ministry of Culture Sibenik, they told me that it was an illegal structure on Krapanj.
I explained that it was provided and installed by the City of Sibenik, just a few months ago ? they said it is inappropriate for Krapanj and should be removed !
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