November 23, 2005

Whatever...

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU 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 5 year phase-in plan that would be 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 the "k".

This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

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 ekspekted 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 the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w"
with "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 trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
And zen ve vil tak over ze world!

10 Comments:

Anonymous Divir said...

hehe..this is an old one..but really identify with it now..what with being in ostschweiz for over 2 months.. :)

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005  
Blogger Vaibhav said...

Really? had never heard it before...

Whats hapenning in the land of chocolate, cheese, and cuckoo clocks ? (I have removed an impolite reference to shady bank accounts)

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005  
Blogger Yohan said...

Hee hee hee. Yeah. I've read it too, but zis is superfantastiche!

How was the CAT?

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005  
Blogger Vaibhav said...

We shall know how the CAT was when the results come... as of now.. can't say... :)

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005  
Anonymous Neha said...

zis is 2 gud!i cant put together one sentence in the new language :P

i like my english the way it is now!!

Wednesday, 23 November, 2005  
Blogger Mighty said...

after i read the first sentence i thought it was true...

Thursday, 24 November, 2005  
Blogger Jonas said...

aaw! not original? :(

Made great reading anyways! :)

Monday, 28 November, 2005  
Blogger Sunil Natraj said...

fantastic!!!!

Friday, 02 December, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

zink its a hel of an entry.

Friday, 02 December, 2005  
Blogger If I tell ya, I'll have to kill ya said...

HAHAHA....dissapointed to see it isnt original....but still really really a good one.

Sunday, 11 December, 2005  

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