{"id":2757,"date":"2021-02-09T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2021-02-09T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:45:22","slug":"english-to-become-the-official-european-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/english-to-become-the-official-european-language\/","title":{"rendered":"English to become the official European language"},"content":{"rendered":"\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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n <div style=\"margin-top:50px; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:center; color:#c1bdbd;\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Jokes -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6695910881285465\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9339555086\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/br><\/br><\/br>\n\n\n\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 &#8220;Euro-English&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first year, &#8220;s&#8221; will replace the soft &#8220;c&#8221;. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard &#8220;c&#8221; will be dropped in favour of &#8220;k&#8221;. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be growing publik&nbsp;enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome &#8220;ph&#8221; will be replaced with &#8220;f&#8221;. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent &#8220;e&#8221; in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n <div style=\"margin-top:50px; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:center; color:#c1bdbd;\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Jokes -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6695910881285465\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9339555086\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/br><\/br><\/br>\n\n\n\n<p>By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing &#8220;th&#8221; with &#8220;z&#8221; and &#8220;w&#8221; with &#8220;v&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary &#8220;o&#8221; kan be dropd from vords&nbsp;kontaining &#8220;ou&#8221; and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi&nbsp;bl riten styl.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JokePin-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JokePin-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JokePin-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JokePin-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JokePin.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 other possibility.&nbsp; As part of&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3,34],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes","tag-funny-story-around-the-world","tag-jokes"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}