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Hi Wouter. This imitation pales in comparison to Rob Weir's interpretation of MSOOXML. http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/standards-parable.html "Og mil ten fit ghust lech fer ti nostu, pertents? Sperandomiseria, cuic cuic danto do quant fer nos protoblian, sed nuic, volte torma. Zherantilli, fer muc opsice inito brandu s'deko prot affti? Nek worchi fer ubir! Sperandomiseria, gher-kloj ven ter moido, ven ter zer-moidi, eggen ven ter moidisti miki-moiki." Try to figure out what that means! yk.

That English is an amalgamation of the original language with that of the conquers of the British Isles is well known. Less known is the result of the amalgamation was a cleaning out the forms of language which serve to complicate or serve little purpose. Instead of learning a bunch of verb tenses which depend on the subject and it's relation to the speaker, English uses word order for all. Instead of applying gender to inanimate objects, English ejected the entire concept. Unlike the kitchen-sinkers in Redmond developing Office, English evolves to be simpler and increasingly free of cruft. Once again Microsoft supporters fail to get the examples right. And it's not particularly funny either.