Re: A New Lingua Franca for EuropeJohn Smith 123 Pocahontas Drive Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 234-5678 E-mail: [email protected] February 16, 2010 Governor Thomas Ratcliffe Shareholder Services NEW WORLD CORPORATION 4567 N. State Street Los Angeles, CA 98765 Re: A New Lingua Franca for EuropeDear Governor Ratcliffe: The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications rather than German, which received the second-highest number of votes. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (hereinafter referred to as “Euro”). In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c.” Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard “c” will be replaced with “k.” Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced by “f.” This will make words like “fotograf” 20 persent shorter.Governor Thomas RatcliffeFebruary 16, 2010Page 2In 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. In adition, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” by “z” and“w” by “v.” During ze fifz year, 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 b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivunvil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru. Sincerely, John Smith John Smith[Note: Please use double space for the body of the letter, as shown in this format sample, for grading