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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 ]0 u0 M2 W! d q8 Q# T: Kbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was. E8 f; e( [7 t4 O8 V/ G- s
the other possibility.+ e3 W! a+ ~& G2 s0 ?7 u4 t
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ F6 K# O; u3 c u' d
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* g$ M' X& `0 _0 i+ P5 v. }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 }. C5 }3 F, f1 \4 O: d
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% r) I' n" h$ x' T9 U# Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.. t* {. {& y- j6 P" v
: A4 }* i6 L! s1 }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 I- U, [9 | ]# E# W. f9 I
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ s( x: R2 J/ j# ?% [
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* A/ Y/ r0 P2 [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; e T) b1 T' C/ M, R/ [+ Y3 d# A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 ~( @5 m9 z8 ~
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 p2 Y/ L" B4 f! U" C8 U6 I* c
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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% k+ O+ _9 ?$ P: `, rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; g5 w1 M" C0 _6 w6 v* Gdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 ~" ^' g8 u" D! L. d
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 D& J7 [, f* T7 B& c$ m- L. iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: V$ H3 s0 ?1 Y9 a+ @7 O
0 U* K! f9 v9 p# v* gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 Z! o+ d2 h( G1 {, a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 `) y; b; ^1 UUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' y7 I- U. |/ T" B' O
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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