EU Official language plan 


The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English 
will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, 
which is 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 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. 

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza peopl.

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