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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 e* N9 V* A* [7 O) I& {; D# _) I
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- m9 L( d) p% j# Z- Z3 M* G
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. c# K: C' u/ H
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* g! f. Y. m8 [; H1 W3 `
5 o5 U4 b+ O; [. P! r) a# {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ M5 v' C b) W* z7 w2 P5 ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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; e- ]' t0 [7 O: }: \2 I+ SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
& r! @" w/ m8 I5 q7 q& O3 |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 P* S [% z4 h; c4 c$ N# e2 \
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 s; ~! Q. Q! c4 U+ Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, f9 d6 X; c! ^# Q: O" o' Lfotograf 20% shorter.+ o! F E. X% H0 d
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ W, U5 c1 Q( |9 j( q& o
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." t4 ]. s+ c, r* n* }% Z f' d2 B5 ~
" {. N4 g1 W! S, A9 xGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 }. z: ?0 z" oben a deterent to akurate speling.
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6 e q# L, q% J6 bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 O$ ^" f j+ j: N
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) z5 z4 D: I* tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: }& S D6 }& T
"z" and "w" with "v".! j9 ]3 {, E* h; J1 S# I0 b
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: X* m0 T$ O. |; X5 r/ y# n& a4 }
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 `1 P1 G: _) l" F
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 S7 G6 I, E5 {8 r# {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 K4 c2 b! j+ h( z6 f6 r8 tUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze% X; ^1 Y+ F- H
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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