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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ [5 H: S5 [' B5 \
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
1 `9 D4 }; ^$ j* W; k4 e9 x% uthe other possibility.
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$ L) w' Q& |( E: s" {1 N W! |3 wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- I( c3 D* [' U/ ^' i U6 a
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 @! L3 f1 Y, M8 b* j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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5 S+ z$ }# ]5 {' pIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
0 D8 {- [ z. x+ g6 _( E X, d$ Othe sivil servants jump with joy.( w5 J6 R4 p2 `9 g4 h- y8 T( j
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 Q5 D, ^, W1 nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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; G) F4 [0 L- X2 d( L" JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 Q3 V* C' G- g9 qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 ^" `2 ?2 `" _7 p1 w2 t) u. p
fotograf 20% shorter., l# {6 `7 j M' |6 N7 `
) [$ r6 }& T( @" x' S) r$ {" t. Y0 tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) g6 z( m& M! {1 T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- ]5 S: T$ {, w+ x; ~2 c3 p4 i
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. r- h) }" b6 B1 ^$ z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
g0 N) t) \- {disgrasful and it should go away.* D/ }+ \7 N/ S0 x8 u
- O, J( A: K u: fBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- `% E; ^5 g" \8 x% q7 Y
"z" and "w" with "v".
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+ ?" c' f' S# Z; }During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
" D: s! ]4 q) W; \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, R% j: I- C: C2 n1 t9 A$ H: v8 O" BZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( b3 P' e. T& }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& A% v; x. m* e1 uUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# b8 O) S5 R5 L& q' jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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