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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 y4 p: V# a' E+ \/ C" ]+ v z
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was `1 A. b7 e( R5 j. r8 C) v$ l
the other possibility.9 b9 I& _$ _: j& K/ |
# Q$ _+ s6 u" JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
+ q' [+ k3 O" P8 j7 Q# _spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- j/ Z- l1 I9 Y* ]5 T# T
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." p8 g$ t4 K' c& o t
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
% [. B7 {$ p$ i" j' a" Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.1 j8 e" A7 ?6 w O& l
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 Z/ c3 d$ B7 v1 skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.6 i4 f/ P: { l0 Z; h6 |
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/ o8 |$ c1 p' z, U5 ]There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, V8 |9 w: ?; B7 v0 jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
3 g% s& Q5 @2 t. w! K; Mfotograf 20% shorter.
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/ J9 A ^0 f, \5 P5 _) fIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' G, Q5 g" N0 ~* `) m* g% Kreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. q& P7 ?) n0 R* j7 X2 g
4 x- B, M8 F- U+ h- A: rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
! ]9 M2 ^: H9 [% |( ]$ yben a deterent to akurate speling.# @8 f: c' k7 t9 J; q
, t( @ a) `0 {9 ^) y7 DAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
; u2 m) |: u+ H1 \" Y: Rdisgrasful and it should go away.( H! N- i5 f+ J- i* E) T7 Y
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" x9 e: Q7 n0 _' |! `, W" Q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
; a2 J' z+ d$ dafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; a( g8 ?: j. ^- U ~0 W
* |3 P, S N9 ? u, H: S2 P: qZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ [! |. o3 d# B. g q; Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 V( A" f$ V4 n, ]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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