I think that you will be interested to learn that the European
Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to
adopt English as the preferred language for European communications,
rather than German, which was the other possibilty. As part of the
negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling
had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan
for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy, and keyboards
could have one less letter. Also the hard "c" will be replaced with "k".
Not only will this klear up konfusion, but keyboards kan loose a further
letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the thrid 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 been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre
that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and
they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from words
kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
After ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be
no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand
ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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Sonya Nikolsky
Production Manager
JCH GeoInfo
3600 University Dr
Durham NC 27707
(919)493-9339 Phone
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