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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ ?! G' q& H- _* \, W- T5 Qbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
& q' f9 @& r6 Z7 A. A/ \8 v8 Rthe other possibility.
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7 |1 G& W% J8 |4 y. ^As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 {; v* ]7 a3 b e0 P" Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ `' I" D' p* f: _" O
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 F7 H) }/ p+ S& L3 E4 b5 [
. M6 f$ O' Q9 F8 S# ]7 KIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 s0 B% s. [0 Y- ^4 u: N( \0 K
the sivil servants jump with joy.( Y7 w7 _ Z8 q5 q
j: `) \- K5 H, m+ h8 Y2 Y1 T3 A9 ?The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
g4 t" A, G" f# tkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.' D: L9 ^; Y) U; v3 v% L D8 k) S
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- Q- |+ U3 J6 }3 uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 @4 p0 D# _% q1 xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; h4 W" l9 w* J- b* v3 zfotograf 20% shorter.
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# W& l, c& n' z& K) E! f( VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 [+ G& ^4 z/ n( ?. r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 B# ~* j* ^( b' S
9 A _( ^8 d2 G+ M% E& @Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
3 I8 Q: g' O' N0 B6 T% ]ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 H" E7 V- R0 G! ~& A. S5 sAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' }8 W* n' H0 mdisgrasful and it should go away.
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4 T# T i1 M- Z, b4 ~/ T& UBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with" N/ t* q* @7 ~# P* H- C
"z" and "w" with "v".# e% K6 Z) _* b& U- {
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 v1 u# L% J; Z) P5 P3 \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 w5 J! s: ]0 h( i! W
( k% k7 R4 t1 V. d u/ V9 \Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, c% v6 c/ B0 T7 w* k: g
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 F5 j1 b3 Y' M# q, iUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 K' M; L$ Q) p7 @2 @, z
forst plas.
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% e# S# g" w+ @% |& b- YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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