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Euro-English - not to be taken seriously

 
 
Clary
 
Reply Sat 6 Jan, 2007 10:53 am
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.


If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 6 Jan, 2007 10:56 am
Ve haf met ze enemy and it is us.
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