Official language of the EU

[jraf 0]

> > 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, Her Majesty"s
> > Government conceded that English spelling had
> > some room for improvement and has accepted a
> > five-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 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 third 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 fourth yer peopl 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 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.
> >
> >Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened

jraf

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