The European Union commissioners have announced that
an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the
preferred language for European communications, 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 five-year phased plan for what
will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the
first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c" ...
The European Union commissioners have announced that
an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the
preferred language for European communications, 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 five-year phased plan for what
will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the
first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with
joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not
only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters
kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond
year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by
"f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent
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 enkorage the removal of double
letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate
speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of
silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they
would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps
such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " 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.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German
like zey vunted in ze forst place.