The 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 for
the "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
fisiks, fotograf and
farmasy about 20%
shorter, hence less
ink to use.
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 made
us look stupid once
we mis-spel a word.
Besides, double
letered words have
always ben subject
to
inakurate speling.
Also, al wil agre
that the horibl mes
of the silent "e" in
words like languag &
disguis 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 riel
sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis
and evrivun vil find
it izi tu
understand ich oza.
Ze drim of a united
urop vil finali kum
tru. And after ze
fifz yer, ve vil al
be speking
German-like English
as zey vunted in ze
first plas.
If zis mad you smil,
pleas pas on to oza
pepl
Goodbye EU

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