Aix-en-Peking
Nollson, John
the vast increase in human wealth, and destroyed the class society, while class war persists virulently between bureaucrats and proletarians in every socialist state. If the Church is truly...
...Indeed, it mattered very little when the Chinese announced that, henceforth, the proper spelling of Teng Hsiao-p'ing was Deng Xiaoping...
...Qeerio...
...Given the historical dimensions of the President's decision, public reaction has been mixed, ranging from only mild skepticism to enthusiastic support...
...It is startling to discover that users of the Roman alPhabet must turn to China in order to learn how to Romanize their native tongues...
...Or even that Chiang Ch 'ing had become Jiang Qing (even though there were some who rejoiced that Iraqi was no longer the only word with a q in it that was not followed by a u...
...Years ago, they had, in their ingenuity and sageliness, taken to spelling .Joe as Chou and Dung as Teng although, for some strange reason, China was never pronounced Jina...
...It is the capitalist who renounces the zero-sum imagery of socialist planning--and the disguised egotism of "revolutionary" leadership--and asserts the golden rule that the good fortune of others is also one's own, that the expansion of trade always depends on the success, the trust, and the understanding of others...
...Capitalism is suffering from the increasing betrayal of its moral, spiritual, and religious foundations by churches and schools, priests and politicians, conservatives and liberals, who believe that the paramount laws of giving and faith are irrelevant to the great dreams of human creativity and production, science and art...
...endorsement from Saduhl River, Nu Jersi...
...Although many capitalists fail to fulfill the essential values of the system, the problem of free economies is not the n a t u r e of their economics, but its corruption by a secular humanist and amoral culture...
...Wi shud hay dun it lawng agau...
...Thuh Sekratehri ov Suteit cekundehd thuh Pureisiduhnt's thauts...
...The most valuable recent addition, however, is a new system for the spelling of English...
...In fact, the White House has already begun to prepare legislation which will empower the Administration to issue the necessary rules and regulations...
...Thuh yuc of the pinyin xyctum opinc uhp nu p a h c b i l i t i z fawr koahpureixun bitwin thuh Qines and thuh Ahmeirukun p i p u l z , " thuh Pureisiduhnt's sopicmahn sehd...
...Subsequent investigative reporting has uncovered the fact that this was an inspired leak...
...Viv Duhgawl...
...As for Arkansaw, it is universally agreed that the new spelling is far more sensible...
...It is not surprising that the federal government has decided to leap on board the bandwagon...
...If there be some vague intimation that the global balance of power is changing, so be it, for the key to the survival of any species is adaptability...
...The Pope, if he looked carefully, could see that the worldly society of his dreams is--in fact--capitalism...
...If the Church is truly concerned with the material problem of world hunger and poverty, it should maintain a becoming modesty about its own mostly feckless efforts at distributing food (any multinational agribusiness, after all, far excels the Church in the physical nourishment of its sheep...
...Or that Chou En-lai should be rendered Zhou Enlai...
...In Qina itself, the man in the street is delighted, and Richard Nixon issued his own warm...
...it all depends upon the direct effect on local communities...
...This was first appreciated by the good citizens of Zhoplin, Missouri who, in a local referendum, voted to adopt China's pinyin system for the rendering of English...
...Instead, the Church should devote itself to its own spiritual and religious cause, upholding the laws of morality and faith, and thus redeem the most crucial conditions of capitalist giving and entrepreneurship...
...A common understanding of the true sounds of the vowels and consonants is necessary for the formulatio, of a common strategic doctrine...
...It is the Pontiff's own increasingly socialist flock--particularly its new contingent on the New Republic--that most needs to heed his warnings against materialism and unbelief...
...Typesetters and lexicographers from kohst to kohst have now been alerted that they must begin to prepare for the changeover...
...Our problem, therefore, is a crisis not of economics but of religion and culture...
...176176176176176176 . . . . ~ ~ 1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 John Nollson AIX-EN-PEKING As everyone knows, almost everything useful--from noodles to gunpowder--was invented in China...
...The movement spread quickly to Xikago, then to Qarlstun and, for all we know, may soon cross the Englix Qannel, though the Kwien's Englix is always resistant to change...
...But the trend toward interdependence is irreversible and, if people are to communicate with each other in an effective manner, some order has to be brought out of the chaos...
...All too many clerics have renounced the claims of the spirit in favor of inept ventures of materialism and social politics, thus depriving capitalism of its indispensable moral rules and roots, and spreading famine and poverty in the name of social justice...
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...But the Western world cannot afford to be arrogant about it...
...Three months ago, the report of the White House Conference on Spelling was submitted to the President and, just three days ago, a well-connected Washington journalist filched a copy of a press release that is scheduled for release at the end of the month, its provisions to become effective on January 1, 1982: T~e Huait Hauc Pureisiduhnt Reigun ahnaunxed tudei that, az a sain ov gud feith, thuh Younaitid Suteits wud ahdahpt Q i n a h ' s pinyin xyctum fawr thuh raiting ov Englix...
...Ix auk bihn ain Berliner...
...Qehvi Qeis, Maryland, will really feel the pinch, but in the state of Mein, folks will probably not even notice...
...In truth, English spelling was never much influenced by this ancient Chinese practice...
...Yet, entrepreneurial activity is usually necessary to all practical compassion and charity, just as understanding and good will toward others is necessary to most entrepreneurial success...
...The President is surely correct, and it remains only for our leadership to be ratified by the remaining members of NATO...
...This is the second time the Chinese have devised a way of doing it...
...Naht sins wi disaidid tu ahdahpt thuh mehtrik xystum hay wi bin so ihnternaxunuhl in awr autluk...
...Nau that aur tu pipulz hav disidehd tu render Englix ihn thuh seim wei, t h e i r ic no limit to thuh s u t a r i z h i k kansensuc we kan riq...
...and bishops should stop teaching the poor the absurd and disabling myth that their problem is the wealth of capitalists--and that the solution is stealing it from them (i.e., socialism...
Vol. 15 • February 1982 • No. 2
