Please read, its important.
The European Union commissioners have announced that
> agreement has been
> reached to adopt English as the preferred language
> for European
> communications, 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 five-year phased
> plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
> short).
>
> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the
> soft "c". Sertainly,
> sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.
> Also, the hard "c" will be
> replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up
> konfusion, but typewriters
> kan have one less letter.
>
> There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the
> sekond year, when the
> troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will
> make words like
> fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
>
> In the third year, publik 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 silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and
> they would go.
>
> By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps
> such as replasing "th"
> by "z" and "w" by "v".
>
> During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd
> from vords kontaining
> "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to
> ozer kombinations of
> leters. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
> German like zey vunted
> in ze forst plase!
[Edited by Chewy on 12/5/2004 10:57:03 PM]
