Hi,
will there be a meetup in the Mad Monk this month?
I'm hoping to enter the dark beer competition with an all grain, but I'm clueless how to go about
sorting out a recipe and buying ingredients :)
It'd be very handy to have a chat about that.
Brian, buy a copy of Beersmith and download and look at a few sample recipes, thats how most of us started, unless your name is Dempsey who has his all on the back of Carrolls packets ;)
Meet on Wednesday, unless your off to German classes...
I need to tweeter it.
excellent - I've installed BeerSmith and will bring a recipe along Wednesday, along with a lot of questions :)
I've no German meetup next week, so I can talk beer instead.
A more universal language! O0
Quote from: johnrm on May 08, 2014, 03:09:11 PM
A more universal language! O0
Reminds me of this:
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European
Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving efficiency in
communications between Government
departments.
European officials have often pointed out the English spelling is unnecessarily difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomolies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations.
In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using "s" instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard "c" could be replaced by "k" sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter.
There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it would 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 leters whish have always been 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 them and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing "th" by "z." Perhaps zen ze funktion of "w" kould be taken on by "v," vitsh is, after al, half a "w." Shortly after zis, ze unesesary "o" kould be dropd from vords kontaining "ou." Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of ze Guvermnt vud finali have kum tru.