[meteorite-list] The European Commission on Languages (Way Off Topic)

[GeoZay at aol.com]

This is way off topic and has nothing to do with meteorites or astronomy,  
but with the international flavor of this list, perhaps a little chuckle would  
be in order. 
geozay
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The European Commission on Languages 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.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas other  pepl.

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