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.
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.