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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 C. d* H! }9 J9 P' r& Hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, A8 X6 S/ U& c! h( M% ^; ]
the other possibility.# k; V( o1 y' t. }) z# T
' \2 C: \/ A7 ]# q5 U! ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' q2 ~; \* U3 ~+ T
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
0 k3 w2 F: O, }( ?6 W3 wplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." p, L1 z/ @+ O; B
8 S# q3 q0 w! U+ G" F- l/ A, dIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
0 @* k, k2 L6 m/ Z$ c9 {% ithe sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 K" C5 i# O) qThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, [( Q4 K6 t; u* }+ nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 P, H' k$ f9 {$ Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. B3 k( P# i6 l/ A# pfotograf 20% shorter.) e* W; Y( R0 f( ^' L
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! j3 F7 t' I" I5 [reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 l8 K5 O2 W8 G2 p& H0 y
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; f, U& f G5 H; H7 yben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 }* R' ^/ I! |. A: \Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) o! R+ P3 U) t% cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) S3 L% j" T; K
"z" and "w" with "v"." V. L" H6 S M( o
+ J. x1 t' Z$ b+ j" w! f1 @1 j, O- oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. }+ k" D$ d8 r. h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 {9 ]! I, f% {3 Z0 K+ v4 q; C
3 B; w/ }# w7 w( V2 o( U5 NZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 L, Y* O+ o9 l* \- qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 ]7 ^' _9 L: X7 K: s: L
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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