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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will3 J- ~5 J* S) Z9 z! m7 g! E7 `9 e
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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$ m1 f c; b g0 G6 v2 gAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 H# z4 M" y& `2 Q" n/ u
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, u6 |. u6 d# |2 H; @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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6 Y3 Z2 ]# [$ p& R8 O: o vIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make. E" _9 x3 A% }7 t
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( M0 t+ f3 _0 d5 b" A1 M& U
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.2 ^+ l5 `5 F% c. a5 ?# ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" }9 T& m! ]5 e+ C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 q9 t* [# @( r8 L( z) m( K0 R
fotograf 20% shorter.( ~: [' d; Y% p
5 [3 h0 s0 K, k7 ~: K% @; Y9 |In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: D9 U7 w7 N; Q: {
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: ~- _! ]6 e$ q/ d8 {& M
9 V# z- ^2 W; ?- U# \7 D) DGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 O( |0 _. d6 t* i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 |. D4 \- o2 Q) A: k! F- b9 MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ ?; d2 m, Z$ e9 b* L+ _" l) f2 j
disgrasful and it should go away.' A3 J8 g; N% b! ~ v, G8 E3 X
# Z3 D" D0 W( m% T, |: tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# }/ y& \! E* j3 G
"z" and "w" with "v".; }6 j- L m8 R9 k. g! u
8 g. Z- P5 a/ {During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 Q/ E, f# P) W" ^9 C6 G/ I3 Oafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ T T# `6 e+ S: }+ Z3 b# t
( S; `+ w/ F! M' YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 j! ~ s' {& `' s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, ~% ?2 u: s4 i! F; A0 PUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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