Dear All,
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".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords
kontaining
"ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl 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 like zey vunted
in
ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
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