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I got this joke in the mail...enjoy :)

From:Axiem <axiem@...>
Date:Saturday, April 8, 2000, 17:43
> "EuroEnglish" > > The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has > been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European > communications, 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 > five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for > short). > > In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. > Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the > hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only will this klear up > konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the > troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words > like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter. > > In the third 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 horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is > disgrasful, and they would go. > > By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as > replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w' by '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 b > no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand > ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.