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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* T# W; D$ F/ ^* x6 Y) {be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
: G. r* @/ R! S0 H. F, xthe other possibility.
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. e# v" f- I# @5 tAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: w( e3 U- U& Qspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* j7 R7 `& Y2 {) | l
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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. i& _4 c- o* YIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 @+ g5 J. l" x: \$ a& `- {2 s8 xthe sivil servants jump with joy.( H. n! A0 D$ y7 r% b/ g1 y* L! H
+ y/ l/ v, U3 X6 m3 G' L0 xThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up" r2 @' {, m! y7 d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 g) C s4 N6 \& g
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 r5 Y# E! y# Y4 M& U% m$ R
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& b( h V) U4 F& Q; V
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ ]4 N6 L) ^- W4 r2 T. n; P& yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 w( |2 o- o8 ^% Q' C. j ^
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 @& S7 ^8 @$ T4 [. }7 yben a deterent to akurate speling.. F: \( C+ x2 l$ O# H& p
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; ~% P ]) ^$ F |" L. [( w9 A
disgrasful and it should go away., p+ ~+ [/ E+ Z7 u
3 B5 w" f1 @1 JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( O9 {9 y. ]' l, Y
"z" and "w" with "v".! J9 z* m8 p i, B" Q. C9 X
4 i- E0 A+ m# r2 dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
' W- w( m3 b1 p4 [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 B6 \# O0 K1 b. f$ V
5 s+ {/ G6 g) x; M' G/ \- xZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 ~8 C: _' X- a- k( k( M4 _understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: W" ~1 n% v/ y. [8 I& xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 J7 G9 |; ~/ M+ E+ O
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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