wildthing
10-09-2003, 04:09 PM
The European Union has just announced an agreement whereby English will be
the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
the one other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government has conceded that
English spelling does actually have some small, but significant, room for
improvement and has thus accepted a 5-year phase-in-plan of these
improvements that will eventually 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 letter less.
In the sekond year, there will be growing publik enthusiasm when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected 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 fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z", and "w" with "v".
During the fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing
ou" and after ziz 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 u smil ples pas on
to oza pepl.
the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
the one other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government has conceded that
English spelling does actually have some small, but significant, room for
improvement and has thus accepted a 5-year phase-in-plan of these
improvements that will eventually 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 letter less.
In the sekond year, there will be growing publik enthusiasm when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected 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 fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z", and "w" with "v".
During the fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing
ou" and after ziz 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 u smil ples pas on
to oza pepl.