понедельник, 27 сентября 2004
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important news about the EUThe 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. 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 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
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 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new
spelling
kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters
which
have always ben a de terent 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 peopl 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 containing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil
sensibl
riten 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.
If
zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl.
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