english classes
as i am training to become a teacher of english as a foreign language, this made me laugh. enjoy!
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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.
*
*****
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.
*
posted by Solange at 12:16
2 Comments:
That article is amazing. It reminds me of the time we switched Carrie's Google page to Elmer Fudd. I'm Feewing Wucky!
Lauren
After being in the Czech Republic for only a week and a half, I got a HUGE kick out of this! I hope all is well with you and happy birthday!
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