{"id":1886,"date":"2005-09-29T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/09\/euro-english.html"},"modified":"2005-09-29T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:29:00","slug":"euro-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/09\/euro-english.html","title":{"rendered":"Euro-English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-th year phase-in plan that would become known as \u201cEuro-English\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year, \u201cs\u201d will replace the soft \u201cc\u201d. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.<\/p>\n<p>The hard \u201cc\u201d will be dropped in favour of \u201ck\u201d. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.<\/p>\n<p>There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome \u201cph\u201d will be replaced with \u201cf\u201d. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.<\/p>\n<p>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.<\/p>\n<p>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent \u201ce\u201d in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.<\/p>\n<p>By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing \u201cth\u201d with \u201cz\u201d and \u201cw\u201d with \u201cv\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary \u201co\u201d kan be dropd from vords kontaining \u201cou\u201d and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.<\/p>\n<p>If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><em>Thanks to FWD from Fr Victor Potapov.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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