DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

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 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 dropd from vords 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 ech oza. Ze drem of a united Europ vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas

2435marty Loc: Berks County Pa

Exselent

repleo Loc: Boston

Of course all bets are off in the likely event of a no-deal Brexit. Ireland will be the only English speaking country left in the EU

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Das Gut....!

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Cute, exsept there wouldn't be one less key on the keyboard. Still need the C for all those CH words.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

English has always been the official language of the Europian Union!

Hammer Loc: London UK

That is brilliant .

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

France does not want to lose their language and culture. In years past, the local governments passed ordinances to prevent businesses from using signs in English. Montreal, Quebec Canada, has been known to do this too. To be an Air Traffic Controller, one must speak English. Worldwide. I didn't know the language of the EU was German?

Linary Loc: UK

It isn't, it was English but slowly transitioning to French.

The EEC does not like the British, but does not want us to leave their little Empire either.

Collhar Loc: New York City.

In ten years time Spanish will be the language of the US

SonyBug

It is a joke! Of course English is the official language, but this really points out why it is such a hard language to navigate.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

In the late 50's/early 60's my Dad did ICBM installs in the mid-west, I'll never forget each little town - if it was a Polish/German/Hungarian/etc.etc. based town, not only did many of the adults speak the transplanted tongue and little English, but all the little shops/stores/businesses had their signs in that language and posted information in that same language. Needless to say, it was tough for us as strictly English speaking Americans, some places you could tell what they did by the surroundings and fixtures, some we would just go in and try to figure it out. They did not like outsiders, and as a caucasion/white american it was a hard introduction to what a cultural form of racism is and what it is like to experience it.

In school, you could easily tell the students who were learning English as well as all the other lessions, some would even need student translators. The whole experience (several years of my young life) was a huge eye opener (and was rough at times) - I often had to choose to either run or fight - no other options out of range of teachers/school officials in the matter, I was an outsider and they didn't like us in their little town - and one year I went to two different schools in two different towns, two different language bases - woohoo!!

You could tell English was rough for many, some struggled mightily (probably no one at home spoke English).....

Needless to say, it was quite the learning experience.....

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Mark

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Good one.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Highly doubtful, plus, the USA does not have an official language, never has.