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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will. z8 B# P+ ^3 ]6 v& p
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# o; f w. C: i% J0 I+ O& m/ H
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& U& x; l/ V- dAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
; R% ?1 B8 K: a: ? dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 T1 }: U! g8 G) `plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".4 p4 O/ z5 d' S8 j, y8 {
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( w2 E& \5 ^% q' r! V0 s0 T) lthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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- g0 U' v" D) I: q. [4 ~The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up% U9 s0 F! q8 ? [8 d* V
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 D7 {. ^5 W# A) ~+ ^+ ?$ y
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4 M% k. p8 y4 f8 {2 ^8 E! n7 }' KThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, u \9 {2 n0 U5 {) otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: u, X& m* \; o
fotograf 20% shorter.# ? x ~% O: T( e2 f
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: x. S% X8 i4 N2 G
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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: p/ j* _1 g- N" F+ k- L% J1 EGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% ^: N9 P2 n! m9 J4 @5 |
ben a deterent to akurate speling., L% C- f# \5 E% y) P7 \
' y4 R6 k [$ |$ X0 e1 R/ A5 ]5 `Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
J9 |9 }, ~$ }% W7 _disgrasful and it should go away.
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" S ~! `+ |/ ^1 cBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
) [; W, W$ Q- R# l, m"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 A/ Y5 `- |' U" J
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) B' D1 r8 {1 X- i8 Q- X
$ g* Y$ a6 P9 D* A$ y4 tZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- w: \' @8 e* S
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.: I- b# H. R' W" i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 U% m) e$ z Z1 ^1 O) a
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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