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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
. W2 a; }, ~1 j; b5 Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was1 g! l P$ {0 D5 \
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" u6 T+ |, c3 CAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 K5 o/ q: C. O- d5 [5 B2 d' D4 s
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in# C" p# J' a; Z1 H
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 l" H/ T: R ]. U
; N5 J4 F! @+ |. h. c: h$ \* tIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 ^6 Z! u: u/ K' P0 v |* E
the sivil servants jump with joy.. W' E$ D; r0 @$ u( ] o7 @* L
! A1 o# Z+ o5 c& d4 BThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 A- g: j- T4 f" P2 i2 v: Dkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.. V# h+ s2 R2 K8 j. f5 n/ _$ Q
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- d1 N2 ?# L$ f! y+ JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, V# b! ]8 N. h" U! N4 U9 |troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ n& Z- W0 B7 G8 |3 \1 W
fotograf 20% shorter.5 ^+ ^1 P( f9 k" C8 g4 v. `! R2 @
) s2 ?3 L4 o. S# A* tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ B7 s3 _4 W1 @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 s) g& B$ ]+ J Mben a deterent to akurate speling.
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3 H8 [" h4 {# v2 mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
2 s; e* x( N6 q7 _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
- ~4 Y9 u3 {* `/ z8 B( H- s. r"z" and "w" with "v"." y* {$ x. R. [( C' q8 N( M4 }/ E
7 k6 }1 T: B5 I$ fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: T- W; A/ K/ e
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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6 G6 p- M( g6 u: D' H% P2 tZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: V9 r4 Y: l% j9 Tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" M; [9 _4 O M1 h* g: }5 ^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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