I sent this a few weeks ago, but the E-mail police stripped it. Imagine
anyone thinking my sense of humor was not appropriate.
Dewey 

-----Original Message-----
From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Genny Gibbard
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LF] [NTC] [OT] Official Language of the European Union

Happy Friday...

> If you thought RoHS and WEEE weren't enough...
> 
> 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 kan have 
> one 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 expekted

> to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
> Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters that have 
> always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the 
> horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it 
> should go away.
> 
> By the 4th yer peopl 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 sensibl 
> 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 ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze 
> forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

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