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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
' ]; L- {: X* [) E1 K# L0 g/ Pbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was7 s! o- J7 P) [4 n9 @
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% y6 P% {9 n, w# a& ~4 }
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ n/ P( ~- X8 v& y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 O% _ @! `, q# y5 g' d" v4 X
: t# `0 u; h5 xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make. z( c4 n2 {; j+ Y( p) n- A
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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9 ?9 V& A* {" y) r5 l6 q; O& ]The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& v8 O# z, O zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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7 b" I* C3 A" }) GThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
2 N- m+ z' Y5 d$ t- `6 ]5 Ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% y0 N. _2 s: I" g' h ~fotograf 20% shorter.* a8 [8 T5 y3 n
. s u) C: `4 o) `' }" j, m' h- tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 U6 \+ k# u+ _. `% x/ Z0 f# k: Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* C& H# L/ C) T
% ^3 r8 S, j/ e N: a9 O( fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 B0 R, W" g3 Bben a deterent to akurate speling.% j) f) X& y/ S; J r
5 @4 J( r6 k( G" l- p: qAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is: H3 @6 y1 E( W; _% m7 H
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
a$ d( @: _+ {) Z* E8 q"z" and "w" with "v"." b8 ?" i9 b9 f' ?% s
], k/ R/ d( `% t5 ~During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
: q2 F0 c: }) I! u: Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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7 `; b8 Q5 j Z* s pZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
/ {; @3 o: m' g5 }1 {: Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; i# {" e$ n% S5 Y6 j1 {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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