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To: Mark who wrote (8637)2/9/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: Jim O'Connell  Read Replies (1) of 62549
 
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 "EuroEnglish":

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 favor 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 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 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 trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
And zen ve vil tak over ze vorld!!!
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