>>>>Subject: A joke - Read it out loud :o)
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>expekted
>>>>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!
>>>>