Having
chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the
European Parliament has commissioned a feasability study in ways
of
improving efficiency in communications between Government
departments.
European officials have often pointed out that English spelling
is
unnecessary difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through
and
thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes
to
iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be
administered by a committee staff at top level by participating
nations.
In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using
's'
instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities
would
resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced
by 'k'
sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this
klear up
konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould
be
made with one less letter.
There would be growing enthousiasm when in the sekond year, it
was
anounsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.
This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in
print.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are
possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double
letters
which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the
languag is
disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and
writ as
though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years
sins the
skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as
replasing
'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by
'v',
vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o
kould be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud
of
kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli
sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls,
difikultis and evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze
drems
of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.