Hello All-
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 peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o"
kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and aftr 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 ozr. Ze
drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und aftr ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted
in ze forst plas.
موضوع: Euro-English 
الأحد أغسطس 27, 2006 4:34 am
