...................And on the Subject of Europe !!

[Big J R]

The Change to EuroEnglish

 

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, and in order to appear to be good Europeans, Robin Cook conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish. - Euro for short.

 

In the 1st 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 any konfusion, but typewriter 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 percent 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, whick have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent " e " 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 droped 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.

 

 

Should have picked Kraut in the first place!!! Ill get my coat..........

[The Invisible Man]

Zenofob!

[Big J R]

And proud of it !

[TACKLE1000]

That is Xenophobe TIM, HAVE YOU STARTED ALREADY?

[The Invisible Man]

You must be the brains of the firm then!