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Three more things

This is a link to a page of my old web site containing some further old exams of Algebra1: https://www.math.unipd.it/~facchini/didattica/didattica.html

This is a link to a page of my old web site with some pictures of mine: https://www.math.unipd.it/~facchini/foto/foto.html

And, finally, the content of a page of my very first web site, about 25 years ago:

EUROENGLISH

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility.

ENGLISH SPELLING

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as “EuroEnglish”.

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 favor of the ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion and komputer keyboards kan have one less letter.

ENTHUSIASM

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with the ‘f’. This will make words like ‘fotograf’ 20 persent shorter!

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. The Government will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre thatthe horible mes of the silent ‘e’s in the language is disgrasful, and they should go away.

REPLACING

By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and similar changes of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten style. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understan ech ozer in ze EU.

ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!!

(I hav resivd this via e-meil from adelrio@fcu.um.es)

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