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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
2 I5 W2 B; L) ~0 `1 Bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
/ i- M$ ?1 i! qthe other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, n: |, x/ U: F2 i! S J# F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, R/ F9 I2 `5 E l
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".; [5 K0 v+ t; J- i" p7 @
' }1 c: i4 T1 Y5 d- b# kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
4 l+ v% _6 u2 c% T5 P$ ^$ v7 L3 }the sivil servants jump with joy./ D+ R0 c* e9 c; M8 c+ i5 Y
* j& X. u+ V- uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 E9 W' n( V% r9 ?: L0 k N
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ T( M' ^5 k: _+ O$ c0 [" B* H6 W
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0 R/ e. K7 ^' l" }) C1 `- EThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 {+ F$ K& B! d8 {8 Ttroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like' B( m% `9 z1 }1 G
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 z9 s8 S$ y+ k: F* t# M8 Treach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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! Y, v- y' U* s& r: k @Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' c/ k6 p' Q' ^ben a deterent to akurate speling.! F+ u1 w; W0 g7 [
/ R, H. j) V3 c c- W. g( c( G tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 v/ n1 \2 c" l# ]& U* ]1 e+ Z
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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ E+ G {2 K9 F
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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5 Z% t- U. l$ x4 U2 Q2 t! a7 OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 k- N& p, j5 B A% [& [: zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( r8 B4 r3 R/ }Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: U1 |$ a- C" G/ ]
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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