Meant As A joke (Bet This Makes Ya Smile)?

>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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>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".

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>In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make

>the sivil servants jump with joy.

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>The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up

>konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

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>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.

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>In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to

>reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

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>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always

>ben a deterent to akurate speling.

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>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is

>disgrasful and it should go away.

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>By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with

>"z" and "w" with "v".

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>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.

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>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.

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>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze

>forst plas