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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
7 D7 y9 s& J2 o1 E" H- |+ @be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, t+ W$ {/ v# C9 X. f# L, e( y
the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
) I9 G# E! j$ Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in3 z) u2 _8 F% K) L2 I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 _ g% u' x+ q$ i$ |) D
6 A3 a# P1 C! y: vIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 M0 u- P0 }6 Q
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ v) P K4 w0 Y; T; j0 l+ g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- l A' U& V x' i; i+ Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like2 X: G+ k! w. L# I% m
fotograf 20% shorter.5 k( ^9 A; Z3 W7 b
# g7 O0 W* x6 B( f$ S! E4 BIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% D1 G9 \0 I& X! F( L
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
$ q& U: w! S6 z1 L5 e! `9 ]ben a deterent to akurate speling.8 u( b( u5 h; C, C7 U; j% f+ I
) u# R5 Q, b2 n& kAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& S7 c9 j) i6 G$ B8 X4 g" ~
disgrasful and it should go away.
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' G# G9 r% m! C! DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; _$ I& _" F' ?5 l
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) J* A% l8 ], E% uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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( F9 p4 T/ F) Y; A4 Y, f: f" [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& ^' o7 i* B6 {) h. runderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 x4 T Z/ Z" l; [/ T. SUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 p( t: g& D3 o! \" {. y& |' J
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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