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13 Juillet 2005
The European Commission has just announced an agreement wherebyEnglish will be the official language of the European Union ratherthan German, which wasthe other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded thatEnglish spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-inplan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, thiswill make the sivil servants jump with joy.The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear upkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when thetroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make wordslike fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan beexpekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes arepossible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which havealways ben a deterent to akurate speling.Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in thelangua is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people 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 vordskontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensiblriten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tuunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.