{"id":4564,"date":"2009-02-06T12:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T12:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T12:21:22","slug":"new-euro-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"New Euro Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/euro.jpeg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\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 accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as &#8216;Euro-English&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year, &#8216;s&#8217; will replace the soft &#8216;c&#8217;. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard &#8216;c&#8217; will be dropped in favour of &#8216;k&#8217;. 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 &#8216;ph&#8217; will be replaced with &#8216;f&#8217;. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2nd and 3rd years , 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 &#8216;e&#8217; 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 &#8216;th&#8217; with &#8216;z&#8217; and &#8216;w&#8217; with &#8216;v&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary &#8216;o&#8217; kan be dropd from vords kontaining &#8216;ou&#8217; 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 fuking vunted in ze forst plas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4564\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/euro.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}