The European Union(EU) 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, 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".
> >
> >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 "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 "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 komplikat ed changes are possible.
> >
> >Governments 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.
> >
> >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 vords
> >kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl
> >rite n styl.
> >
> >Zer 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.
> >
> >Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted
> >in ze forst plas.
> >
> >If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
> >
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