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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ Z6 N Q9 `5 g7 m# T7 zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- r5 V) E+ ^7 z
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, D# A, ~4 g+ y5 |0 c
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 F) J3 A7 R0 x
the sivil servants jump with joy., J" A% {) r: j6 @, K( ^% X
: f! R5 `8 y3 P3 P& z# ^* I2 h8 DThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' e" q3 I( `* l2 q* [: \8 {* w
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# S r9 o! b8 R# ^: p
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+ O: \4 u! N O0 @; j5 m3 eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 B3 u5 T6 Y0 W
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 R: k. h9 Z( ~& B/ a2 c( D: gfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ ^2 Q4 C4 p7 b Freach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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1 R( }4 T& `$ ]4 N& c$ JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" k l$ l; U) j4 E. S
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
n0 L( `; X$ G% g& Q3 Q" jdisgrasful and it should go away.( i. l/ x( j' e, f. W7 w
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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, k+ r2 t: c/ C2 ]$ gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 K, s V: b# q/ ]+ ^" u6 s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 { j S" I$ L
3 j$ N) ]& _) c% N& V; EZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu) ]+ ~# q4 T( m. m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.! u0 n+ B d) p+ L' ~: o& ]( H
Und 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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