0 Euro English 02br 02br 02br 00The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. 02br 00As part of the negotiations, the British 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". 02br 02br 00In 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 "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. 02br 02br 00There 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. 02br 02br 00In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. 02br 02br 00Governments 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. 02br 02br 00By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". 02br 02br 00During 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. 02br 02br 00Zer 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. 02br 00Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. 02br 02br 00If zis mad ! you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. 0-
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