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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
- X6 A: Q# h3 E5 o/ fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was: w- M2 m7 S! ~4 v; T" b0 r
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
& e$ X" ]3 }* B4 S* o2 S2 fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. F6 ^# r# s% G8 Hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. `7 h) o% d6 v& s7 F& b) s
n' O8 L, I3 E( z7 C0 KIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 L" J6 Z* O/ j5 D. ?3 o% lthe sivil servants jump with joy.; M& j/ i m& u
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ C1 D) E0 y4 D; e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% {$ z4 Q/ \0 [troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! M% ]# Q: M- s* u5 i- r. k
fotograf 20% shorter.) S4 P, y( c2 ^5 \5 s6 q7 b
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ `8 t% ^0 Y% e8 Z3 Xreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; h- j S3 z* n4 q* h- i, ~ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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( o3 D$ u4 J& i+ p" X6 rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 U$ ^/ y: [) q
disgrasful and it should go away. j f( p* g) f0 S6 F2 K, X4 h, [6 m, Z
5 N+ t0 a Q5 P( z( r) o+ K9 U8 ~- |2 IBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: ?# M; F3 D' p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" B9 T2 r! ^# V- S# \
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: C3 ^4 G& c9 f0 Q
3 S6 p9 T' h! t/ B# Z/ wZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 L7 \/ L. L% |; o4 O8 Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( c- u+ W% G( |) ?' AUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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