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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), January 24, 1998, p. 4

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4l ojl j wl amrmdfijxm p 4- weekender saturday fan uay24 988 st- the tribune saturday january 24 1998 vol 14 no 4 the tribune is a member of the ontario press council comment imon 9056402100 fax- 905 6405477 e-mail- thetribistarca f i i i s editorial job plan a godsend local school boards should watch a planned job creation pro gram for highschool dropouts very closely it could be a god send for the huge number of unemployed youths in canada many of them languishing in york and durham regions a pilot project suggested by federal liberal mps in metro and the toronto separate school board would target firms doing busi ness with the schools and ask them to hire unemployed students each catering computer paper and transportation firm doing business with the toronto board would be each asked to hire one student between the ages of 16 and 29 if they did roughly 9000 jobless youths could see their lives turned around if the federal government approves the project funding could be in place by the end of february and if successful the youth job plan could be expanded across the country canadas youth employment is the worst in the country at about 16 percent highschool dropouts have the toughest time finding jobs of all segments of society the aim of the program is to get the young people off employ ment insurance get them into the workforce evaluate them and try placing them permanently the average work term would be six months and the 15000ayear salaries would be shared by ottawa and individual private companies imagine if yorks two school boards and durhams as well got involved in this kind of jobcreation project they spend mil lions on supplies and services for schools and could use this economic muscle to encourage supplier firms to hire dropouts its an idea worth considering and for those caught in the youth unemployment crisis the perfect time to do it we need a table for eight on the smoking borderline we have three smokers and five non smokers english a 1azy language says critic gulp i havent heard a peep from ted culp for a few years hope hes all right mister culp is or was presi dent of the simplified spelling society of canada sorry that should read simpli- fidespeling sosiety ov canada ted hates the way the english lan guage works its a very lazy and careless language he once told me we need to chop out stuff all down the line hes dead serious or serius mis ter culp has written a 30000-word- simplified dictionary and even pub lished a newspaper printed in what he calls reformed english much as i love the variety of eng lish i have to admit it doesnt make a lot of sense how can words like through threw you and glue be spelled so differently and yet all end with the same sound why is there an 1 in could a p n pneumonia a k in knife a u in valour and one too many as in aardvark how come the letter c gets pro nounced two different ways in the wordcicada and then theres ough which can be pronounced six different ways as in tough through thor- oughvcough hiccough and bough some bard once wrote these words about the idiocyncrasies of english billet does not sound like ballet bouquet wallet mallet chalet vis cous viscount load and broad basic black please do right thing r dear editor how wonderful it is to open the paper and read letters reporting acts of good citizenship this regret tably is not one of them on the afternoon of sun jan 18 our daughter a high school student left our car parked in the parking lot at angies eatery plaza in stouff- ville sometime between 9 am and 1230 pm someone hit the car per haps by accident backing into it on the right front bumper the bumper broke a section about a foot long was punched right out and the sup port arm was bent down in addi tion the turn indicator was broken from its mount and is now loose v our daughter first noticed the damage at 1230 pm but as you letters may have guessed by now no note was left to indicate who was responsible we try to instil good citizenship in our children by word and example this is not the example we wish our daughter to remember if you saw our car being damaged please call 905 2943963 if the person who caused the dam age is the first to call our faith in humanity will be restored and that person will be able to sleep with a clear conscience and the inner pride that goes with doing the right thing ja harper markham arthur black rounded wounded grieve and sieve friend and fiend alive and live worm and storm chaise chaos chair senator spectator mayor yup english is a bizarre language alright if ted culp had his way it would be stripped down and freed from all its inconsistencies cleansed as he put it of all its extraneous redun dant superfluoussilent symbols alas nobody ever paid much attention to ted culp language reformers seldom get much respect a couple of hundred years ago an american tried to interest his fellow countrymen in reforming the lan guage they ignored him too and his name was benjamin franklin back at the turn of this century the great critic and playwright george bernard shaw unveiled a whole new spelling system plus a new alphabet the world yawned mighti- y- perhaps the world instinctively knew better than the reformers ever will this week i received this in the mail y dateline brussels the european union commission ers have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt english as the preferred languagefor euro pean communications father than german which was the other possi bility as part of the negotiations the british government conceded that english spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a fiveyear phased plan for what will be known as euroenglish euro for short in the first year s will be used instead of the soft c sertainly sivil servants will reseive this news with joy also the hard c will be replaced with k not only will this klear up konfusion but typewriter and word prosessor keyboards kan have one less letter experts predikt there will be grow ing publik enthusiasm in the sekond- yedr when the troublesome ph will be replaced by f this will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter in the third year publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more kom- plikated changes are possible gov ernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to aku- rate speling also al wil agre that the horible mes of silent e s in the languag is disgrasful and they would disapear by the fourth year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing th with z andw by v during ze fifz year ze unesesary b kan be dropd from vords kon- taining ou and similar changes yiid ofkors be aplid to ozer kombi- nations ofleters after ziz fifz yer ve viihav a reli sensim riten styl zer vil be no mor trubls ordifikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer ze drem vilfinalikum tru i should hasten to tell you that the above came to me as an email from a reader who thought i would get a kick out of it itz purly tungincheke i m shur stouffville tribune weekender v a metrolana community patricia pappas publisher andrew mair editorinchief tracy kibble editor debra weller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising manager stacey allen classified manager barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager about us news 9056402100 retail sales 905j 6402100 5 6402874 dist fax 905 6405477 email trrlbistarca 6244 main st i stouffvillfi out pjpl4ale2 the stouffvillr tribune pub- f hshed every tuey thursday and saturday is one at the metrohuiov printing publishing i and distnliuutra group at comma- ioity newspaper which iscludck ajaxpickering newr advertiser 5 auiston hcraldcouricr barrie- advance brimptont guardian burlington spost cityparent coisngweod7waaga beach con- i ineetlpnf bast york mirror btbhk j coke fiiiardian georf etowivlndes pendentacton c free press j kingston tbls weekilindsaythis i week 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