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BadMojo
01-30-2008, 12:27 AM
Have fun reading, gets a bit hard at the end :thumbsup:



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 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to 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 vords kontaining '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.

rwyatt365
01-30-2008, 06:14 AM
Zat makz sens tu me!

Santana28
01-30-2008, 09:49 AM
that is freaking hillarious. you've got me bent over my keyboard... i'm going to email this to all of my myspace friends who will probably think i'm an idiot but so what??? they should enjoy this ;)

Ytterbium
01-30-2008, 01:55 PM
Oooooold!

But it's true! English needs a new spelling reform.

BadMojo
02-01-2008, 03:37 PM
that is freaking hilarious. you've got me bent over my keyboard... i'm going to email this to all of my myspace friends who will probably think I'm an idiot but so what??? they should enjoy this ;)

I got a good laugh. Reminded me of the German Nazis from Indiana Jones. "Ziz iz how we schay god bie in Germany Doktor Jons"

polysylvester
02-04-2008, 05:35 PM
I once read a short story (a few pages) written in the 1940's that proposed something very similiar in exactly the same way. I never forgot it!
I would add that we would not be writing German by the time 5 years was up, because I wouldn't need to try to remember if a table has balls or not! :stunned: