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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 favourof 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond yearwhen 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 areplasing '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 sensibl 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.

LOL - could be closer than we think!!!

Dear Len

Hello

I like reading your posts.

Another crazy idea from the EU Commission!

Seriously, too many of the youngsters today are not studying a foreign language. It is invaluable to be able to speak at least the basics.

Best wishes, mon ami!
xx

It would make far more sense if schools all over the world learned Esperanto as the second language ,then every nation in the world could converse with each other ,too difficult for the European Parliment to understand i reckon. Fred

Oh Len....
don't they know that half our young ones use those spellings anyway? ;-0)
Deanna X

very clever..............
Alice Richtig ;-0)
I loved it.
Deanna X

English is the first language of over 60 countries in the world. It is also the official language of the United Nations.