Thank you Isabelle (vie her friend Ludo) for making me laugh this morning:
Here is how it goes:
"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 which 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 people 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 sensi bl 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."
Dear C,
For some reason I thought you weren't posting... apparently are :)
I really enjoyed the colourful posts and that charming escape in Belgium. As for Euro English, oh perlease - I'll tell you a story about our language.... "OnSe upon a time... " ahem, start again, "vuns upon a zeit"
Posted by: Clarity | October 22, 2010 at 01:22 PM
LOL!!! I hope this is a funny joke!!!!
Posted by: Penny Herring | October 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM
Oh yes it did! Happy weekend....xv
Posted by: Vicki Archer | October 22, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Ziz made me laf A LOT :D
Posted by: Dorte | October 23, 2010 at 07:17 AM
Euro English ha ha ha.
I think it must be like Spanglish.
xox o
Posted by: Visual Vamp | October 23, 2010 at 10:29 PM
lol !
Posted by: Sarthak | October 24, 2010 at 05:36 PM
Hysterical... just what I expect from the European Commission...!
Posted by: Martina Tierney | October 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM
ya ya ya zee ike thiz ya ya xo
Posted by: Patti Friday | October 25, 2010 at 03:52 PM
Awesome lol.
Posted by: Andrea | October 26, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Hahaha... Those crafty old Germans! My side hurts from laughing!
Posted by: Angie Muresan | October 30, 2010 at 09:03 PM
Oh and I will pass it on. Tomorrow!
Posted by: Angie Muresan | October 30, 2010 at 09:05 PM
Hilarious! :)
Posted by: Erin | November 01, 2010 at 08:38 PM
well it might make an english speaking person's day but what about us others? Eu doesn't have one official language since we don't want to speak english OR german but indeed expect to continue to be able to speak all our ridiculous little languages. in fact, how many are you, english speaking in the eu and how many are the rest of us?
and don't forget that the commission is just an organ put in place by the governments YOU voted for. so, if you have a complaint, who should you be talking to?
Posted by: the ridiculous Finn | November 05, 2010 at 01:40 AM
I'm still laughing out loud...!
Posted by: PreteMoiParis | November 05, 2010 at 04:55 PM