Nu må jeg hive den gamle joke frem, om indføresle af eneglsk som officielt EU-sprog
"The European Commission
The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the EU, rather than
German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has
therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly,
this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be
dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion
and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when
the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the third 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 horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.
By the fourth 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 similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli
sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and
everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI
COM TRU!
Herr Schmidt"
Noget andet er, at jeg kan se på mine unger og deres venner, at engelsk er SPROGET, de kunne ikke drømme om at tale tydeligt udtalt dansk med et par svenske ord i, når de møder en anden skandinav, taler reelt ikke tysk og slet ikke fransk (selv efter en studentereksamen), så jeg tror at bevægelsen rent sprogligt længe har gået i den retning. Selv franskmænd (yngre) taler et rimeligt engelsk i dag!
Euroen får vi jo også, før eller siden, vi kan jo allerede betale med dem i masser af forretninger, dog med kurstab