Syndicate: EC langvidz

[Aleksandar & Branka Davic <spiridon@EUnet.yu> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

From: Gajic Zorana <zorana@osi.hu>

Zamislite, Englezi hoce da uvedu cirilicu! Pa, ovo je sjajno!


> 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, Her Majesty's Government conceded that
> English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
> five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
> short).
>
> In the first 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 konfusion, but
> typewriters
> kan have one less letter.
>
> There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
> troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
> "fotograf" 20 per sent 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 silent "e"s 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 dropd 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.
>
> Gruss