{"id":130,"date":"2007-03-03T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T12:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-03-03T22:20:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T12:20:54","slug":"new-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"New English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nEnglish will be the official language of the European Union rather\u00c2\u00a0than German, which was the other possibility.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nEnglish spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nyear phase-in plan that would become known as &#8220;Euro-English&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the first year, &#8220;s&#8221; will replace the soft &#8220;c&#8221;. Sertainly, this will\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nmake the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard &#8220;c&#8221; will be dropped in\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nfavour of &#8220;k&#8221;. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\none less letter There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nyear when the troublesome &#8220;ph&#8221; will be replaced with &#8220;f&#8221;. This will\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nmake words like fotograf 20% shorter.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nto reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nalways ben a deterent to akurate speling.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent &#8220;e&#8221; in the languag\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nis disgrasful and it should go away.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nreplasing &#8220;th&#8221; with &#8220;z&#8221; and &#8220;w&#8221; with &#8220;v&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary &#8220;o&#8221; kan be dropd from vords\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nkontaining &#8220;ou&#8221; and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nriten styl.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nze forst plas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby\u00c2\u00a0 English will be the official language of the European Union rather\u00c2\u00a0than German, which was the other possibility.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that\u00c2\u00a0 English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-\u00c2\u00a0 year phase-in plan that would become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}