That was good, Jack. It will also keep those pesky left-leaning PC police
off your back! Keep 'em coming . . . .
Terry Blubaugh
Southern California
----- Original Message -----
From: "P.J.Aeckerlin" <j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl>
To: "Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: Friday Funny
> 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 favour of "k". This should klear up
> konfusion, and keyboards can have one letter less.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 laguag is
> disgrasful and it should go away.
>
> By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "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 sensible 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 za fifz yer, ve al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst
> plas.
>
> Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
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