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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will' V# Y* j$ j0 t6 f
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" E W4 f+ j# l) U0 c; |9 ]
the other possibility.9 K! a/ E1 D6 e5 |* O& d. i
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# P: H, E" w$ i. t. R/ ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* q7 K: l% I- M5 P! tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 Z- A8 n! `) F1 J" A0 ]: R+ z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 E% \% f4 C/ r" K" kThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. D+ h8 X% H O- E) f! R4 L
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: @- i0 t% D' w5 i3 i, ]
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 N# o, X: x4 q& P; `
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like s4 Y* b% ]9 A5 s% B0 o0 `
fotograf 20% shorter.. N$ E- P/ w: Y0 z4 E! [
$ W1 ~# ?3 O/ L n0 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" O9 n: Z4 ~* L2 v/ [$ p
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 D1 e( O' s% T9 KGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 K- }% C% g" S5 f, cben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 |) q8 j2 L# K1 k1 yAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 e* R9 M$ n! L' D0 {6 y0 i) I0 `
disgrasful and it should go away.5 r6 J5 n( P' V( l! n
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- \! _" z. Z. b% e# _2 p
"z" and "w" with "v".
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* [; ~$ z" V# }$ K' M. LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 O x: h- }+ p' B$ o0 G0 J' d
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# l" ^/ W5 g0 _; `# s" ~
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! `6 `- A; z$ T$ B5 W. P+ h
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 |- b$ j" i0 I: u" c! a8 `
forst plas.
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) m! J1 D# m$ RIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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