The European Commission have 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, 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 1 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 expected 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’'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th yar, 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 dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!! And zen ve vil take over ze vorld!!! see also   Language  Section Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar Books Never Written Commas Save Lives Cyberbulbs Does A Double Positive Equal A Negative? Double Negative Education First Impressions Foot Sign Language I Like Cooking Inflationary Language Language Converter Language Lunacy Lerts Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples One Thousand Words Oxford Comma Practice Safe Text Punctuation Matters The Importance of Correct Punctuation   Sunday Service Social Distancing Mannequin Pointer Life's Choices Two Of Each Napoleon Tomorrow You Turn ThaiTanic The Future of Social Media Tartan Headphones Husband Quarantine Aussie Salad Greta on Chopsticks Darkness Eliminator Don't Touch Your Face Pet Dentist Falcon Resting in a Tree Wine Day Fishnet Table Sink Lynx

29-Mar-2020