Received this from a friend -- unsure whether this is REAL or a form of jokes that go around once in awhile -- but considering that I had heard through the grape-vine for the past 5 years from many of my European friends (that this was coming) I am going to treat it as serious, but you can judge for yourself and only time will tell -- feel this is something we genealogists may need to know for coming future messages, books, research (if real) and if this isn't real it is still great as a joke (almost like that one about the spell-checker). Judy M. >Ya'll--- > >Irma received this item from a friend in Germany. >I found it eksedingly funy (alzo not sur why), so am forwarding. > > >SUBJECT: Euro-English: The Five-Year Plan >You thought it would never happen > >The European Commission have 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 Govt. >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 >favor of the "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 the "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. >Government will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have >always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the >horible mes of the silent "E" in the language is disgrasful, and they >should go away. > >By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "TH" >with "Z," and "W" with "V." > >During ze fifz yar, ze unesesary "O" can be dropd from vords kontaining >"OU" and similar changs vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of >leters. > >After zis fifz yar, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil no mor >be trubls or difikiltis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech >ozer. > >ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU !!!!! >