Euro English The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rat...

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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 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 the "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 the "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 yer, 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.

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