The European Commission have just announced an agreement
whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German,
which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's
govt. conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and
has accepted a 5
year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".
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 favor of the "k". This
should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will
be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome
"ph" will be replaced with the "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 horible
mes of the silent "e's" in the language is disgraceful, and they should
go away. By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary
"o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of
kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis 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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