{"id":130,"date":"2007-03-20T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=700&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:31:55","slug":"english-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2007\/03\/20\/english-please\/","title":{"rendered":"English, please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Damon for posting this joke @ the forums I frequent. Thought I&#039;d share it cos I found it hilarious!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has approved a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as &quot;Euro-English&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>In the first year, &quot;s&quot; will replace the soft &quot;c&quot;. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard &quot;c&quot; will be dropped in favour of &quot;k&quot;. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. <\/p>\n<p>There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome &quot;ph&quot; will be replaced with &quot;f&quot;. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. <\/p>\n<p>In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. <\/p>\n<p>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. <\/p>\n<p>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent &quot;e&quot; in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. <\/p>\n<p>By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing &quot;th&quot; with &quot;z&quot; and &quot;w&quot; with &quot;v&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary &quot;o&quot; kan be dropd from vords kontaining &quot;ou&quot; and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Damon for posting this joke @ the forums I frequent. Thought I&#039;d share it cos I found it hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nAs part of the negotiations, the British Government  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2007\/03\/20\/english-please\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}