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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will2 J. A1 Q" |& H- G7 l# A/ U
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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5 |3 C2 e. l1 Z; t$ k* mAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English, X$ q3 X/ B( g2 z9 y B, h7 j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ f/ k8 Q' V$ ~
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- w8 P1 p6 v9 _' Y- c' L
( o7 T, W% p( C& A& V4 g8 g: v4 T: WIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 R8 i. ^& t! v% A" _/ U
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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! h$ n- k7 k, A/ A" M& SThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
2 u O/ @6 }9 h m0 v( W' n7 ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 \) K: t J7 D5 E- c7 mThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ B0 d' D" v4 xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# \4 a* x- s( q; @ k3 ]fotograf 20% shorter.
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: z+ \# [0 D, [) JIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 S' f- E/ x3 }- ?- [' `( S( f0 d" P
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& G# d$ J& ?5 m. e. `" d# u; T {
ben a deterent to akurate speling.: a& c! u( a8 H0 z D
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is/ _' A' `, w2 P
disgrasful and it should go away. F0 p% \' m7 y0 \; m9 T
: d8 U: F+ z! X% F. r7 N4 o# WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 v$ }% l4 u5 C( [) }1 i, v$ N
"z" and "w" with "v".
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2 V. X% F% l& j. W* X/ a$ I, @During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 C5 r4 B1 \; `( C% C
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 h) E5 B% N! e" C# @- m
7 \, c% O8 {0 gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& s- b1 d9 O j6 l/ Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 I; O- O8 ^1 v7 |+ D" Q
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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