Subject: Time to Learn Euro English > *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 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.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:33:48 +0000
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