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• Mar. 29, 2008 - An English Lesson

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The European Commission has 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 five 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 for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour 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 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 the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the 4th year, 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 year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer

ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
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• Mar. 29, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by diamondsintherough
That is so funny. When I was in elementary school I got a Scholastic magazine that had a very similar article. I kept it for years and finally lost it. I believe it was first written by Benjamin Franklin.
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• Mar. 29, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by icecastle
Zas is veri funi!
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• Mar. 30, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous
Man and we though reading Grandmother's spelling was difficult! I think I'll be one of the few that sticks to the normal spelling. LOL!
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• Apr. 2, 2008 - Funny!

Posted by kirstenjett
I thought it was real at first! Many people in the Netherlands speak not only Dutch, but English, German, and some French. I really don't know how they don't get so confused!
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