Recommitting While Skipping

I recently returned from a business meeting that was held in Cappadocia. The meeting involved people from the States, Great Britain, Germany, Finland, Korea, South Africa, etc., etc., etc. We talked about better ways to do things not entirely unlike multi-level marketing. I know, I know, it sounds a bit callous, but I don't know how else to say it using this medium of communication.

Anyway, I pulled a typical Brian by showing up late on the day it started, and skipping some of the sessions during the middle-day. Now I have perfectly good reasons for both, but the combination may be too much for some to understand. First, I showed up late because I was at the police station picking up the family's 3-year residence permit. Yeah yhwh! Second, I skipped some of the sessions because two of the guys that I met had never been there before. I felt OBLIGATED to help show them around some of the interesting sites in Cappadocia. And, as many of you know, I'm a social skipper. Honestly though, I may have even skipped if I didn't have anyone to show around. The region is highly conducive to alone time with Him and even when you are in a small group, it is impossible not to sense His handiwork in the surroundings.

This week and the weeks ahead I'll be meeting regularly with people in the capitol and on the north coast as well. The North Coasters have very little opportunity for hearing what is most important to all of us. Please "lift up" my language skills over the next two weeks.

Official EU Language?

This post from another blog (http://uztranslations.blogspot.com/) caught my eye. Our proximity to the EU and this country's hope of joining demanded that I read it. I think you'll find it enjoyable, even if it is a bit fictional....or is it?

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, “c” will replace the soft “s”. 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.

I don't care who you are, that's just plain funny.