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To: E. Charters who wrote (75845)9/4/2001 7:26:44 AM
From: EasyWay  Respond to of 116825
 
Changes in the World
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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 five
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 world!