New EC Regulations
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be the official language of the EC 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 one 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 third year, publick 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" in the language is disgraseful, and it
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 droped from vords kontaining "ou"; similar changes vud of
kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
- After zi fifz yer, ve wil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer wil be no mor trubls or
difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
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