Official Language
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, "s" will replace the soft "c". 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" as vel as changing
"ng" for "n".
Durin ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontainin "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 lik zey
vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
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