The 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, 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 2nd and 3rd years , publik akseptanse of the new
> spelling kan be expektedto reach the stage where! more
> komplikated 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 vordskontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve
> vil hav a reil sensi bl 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.
>
> Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey
vunted in ze forst plas.
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