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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
; X# F* E1 g* s9 l; Pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! \: [" K/ ^# c& I5 c
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English" K1 k" {$ B2 }, W. k* Y$ |
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 b# D, B. h6 ?* Q- D/ y k1 y _+ m# P
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" A X) z( c+ L, W, j' i- J- bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% I3 l9 N5 j/ G# L$ [3 M& l% C; `the sivil servants jump with joy.+ B% d& N) D2 @/ p
: A0 T% Y( Z! N' ]' c/ dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* e1 Q. m( N9 S Gkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& S( J" [. b4 Z9 v6 Q0 b1 Q3 }5 v
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1 C, l# Q" V% N3 V4 x% j. MThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, s6 `% B; b' z; L7 Z& d8 q$ y! t
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; M2 l! \1 P3 N0 x4 k, u) ^
fotograf 20% shorter.
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: Y& Z+ ^, y6 r9 i8 b, W( wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# y( y- p5 b, X. y W: C1 o: W
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- y/ Z" c5 q. u" n" r5 _7 a( A; u
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# K( O% C- j5 `3 v
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ x! H. D, m2 F7 p$ E
8 `- |; M7 o ^* q+ KAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ D, o- N1 K' |3 t4 o9 D* Ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# o1 e p0 ^: ]) |, Q0 k8 `) E7 S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% C0 k0 }& G+ k1 Eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* @$ R% {3 s2 _0 r
6 a& S5 |9 Q# YZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ x$ ^. X$ G2 M- kunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& t8 A; ^" N8 B, W8 CUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 z* k, g. D+ c: c7 p5 c* r
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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