Tigers,
While there is no Tiger Content here, we all own English cars, are
interested in European automobiles, and perhaps travel there. This will
prepare you for you future trips to the EU countries.
Steve
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Subject: New EU language
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,
which is 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 become 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 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 newspelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horibl mes of the silent "e" in the language 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 dropped from words
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 each oza.
Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
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(8-) Maybe not so far from reality?
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Steve Laifman
Editor
<http://www.TigersUnited.com>
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