Jul 13, 2004 01:23
The European Commission has just announced an agreement wherby English will be official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibulity. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's 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 sevants 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 word like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, pulik akseptense of hte 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 in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing th with z and w wiz v. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou and after zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl 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. If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Zen ve vil rul ze vorld!!!!!!!!!!!