Re: Official Language for the EU

Just in case English becomes europes main language:
Have fun
Sven Peter
"Compania Odontologica Gral." wrote:

> The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
> will be the official language of the EU 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 be 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 1 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 ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated
> changes are possible. Governments will enkorage 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"s in the language is
> disgraseful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, 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 similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
> leters.
> After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be
> no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech
> ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen ve vil tak over ze vorld!!

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