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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will$ w9 |$ ]! a2 x9 r- x8 x- f/ T
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was8 s) _5 K3 e d) P$ P
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/ v# `) g8 [# a8 E# k2 rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 g3 ]! W5 q4 h- z% j8 @; O
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 C$ Z9 s, g* A9 {6 |, cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ J0 t X9 }6 Q1 Y* y' h) R. k" p
. o+ T. l& k P$ K: v6 S) d. R- MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' ?0 `: O: i2 r; t W- c4 q6 uthe sivil servants jump with joy.% h+ L# F- \( d3 X: K9 j- }
7 N, u8 N2 {6 G9 i/ S5 dThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ }- g8 O5 R! o2 ?9 `, K9 }konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& y! P4 Y _# i3 C$ Ktroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like* r/ P4 D r6 J( ^' {9 y
fotograf 20% shorter.0 l2 K j* i2 ~2 `/ v9 h0 K
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) N. D! R3 N, {/ ~
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; \3 c% U5 e- o& H/ o! b' P1 u- ZGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
1 D' J5 t; G) gben a deterent to akurate speling.6 h: `! X# b- y1 \
8 k3 A7 S; S- }* W7 m& OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& b8 ?& m: G- `. e0 Z0 _, o* @disgrasful and it should go away.: |: o# o5 e7 `2 R
6 q7 Q3 Q4 Y: A) g! u8 [7 r( gBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with$ K* w9 O4 f/ b# |" w
"z" and "w" with "v".& q9 }! `5 N: t+ N' {
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
7 d K" N- h+ {6 R" ?$ Z8 j+ ?' Lafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 ^; R0 O( ]: K2 c
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" Q( F9 H/ B: Gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
' B' M: x( k5 L6 H' }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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