As you know at the offices of Hinduism Today we sometimes receive important news in advance of major world events. With Bodhinatha’s trip to Europe on our minds we have been thinking about operations in the “old country” and came upon this important announcement. For English speakers planning to go to Europe, it will be good to keep this in mind:

“The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British and American government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement. Consequently, they have adopted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as European English (Euro for short). In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c.”

Sertainly sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard “c” will be replased with “k.” Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replased by “f.” This will make words like “fotograf” 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will encourage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”s in the languag is disgrasful and they woud go.

By the fourth year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” by “z” and “w” by “v.” During ze fifz yer, ze unesasary “o” kan be droped from vords containing “ou”, and similar changes vuld of kors be aplid to ozer kombinatins of leters.

Und after ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vonted in ze first plas. Ze drem vil kum tru!”

No Responses to “Important Announcement for Travelers to Europe (Humor)”

1. Nigel Siva says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 7:20 pm

   Jai Ganesha.

   Zank Yu. I vas laughing a lot. Siva is sertainly very funy, inded. Finaly, I zink my German gramer is korekt.

2. sarasvathi says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pm

   Very funny indeed to the English speaking people. First the smses, what next?

3. Amma Debora says:
   August 22nd, 2009 at 3:55 am

   Very funny indeed to the non-English people, too…. And nevertheless that is pretty much the way languages evolve – only it takes centuries to happen!

4. Ravichandran Ceyon says:
   August 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   ha-ha-ha-ha….!!!

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