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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
4 j1 x7 Q# B( `! d& }) @% Lbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# Y# s+ N7 j8 \
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 ^9 M/ q& x* m. c1 ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% _, p' h3 G2 d2 {; s* o# C- E* `
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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7 f* I2 s9 f1 JIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, F5 S- U' H x& w5 `3 w3 x2 ` j
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. w' s4 q( c x+ `0 t2 ]6 Ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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* H7 J. X9 P/ h/ @) c& @6 m8 X. RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
, A$ B: R$ l3 g, E& r+ C7 L" N- f$ Xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
* u0 d' m. b2 p4 A" Y3 U* ?4 ^fotograf 20% shorter.
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4 t5 o% H. X( H! E' MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
& s$ N8 x) a+ Y7 E- H1 v6 ?+ qreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; p( l3 l' h5 \1 \- b3 }1 [
$ Z6 Z7 [, a8 ]* F7 l* ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
l" v2 e) I$ G2 vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. h$ y% i* `2 I Ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with+ b# C: F2 ^+ m: i5 l
"z" and "w" with "v".' Y6 I. X9 z& I4 q8 ?( A
/ j/ E6 T" k, F' R( h3 J# q0 gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. e1 w9 `+ P7 h- j' R. I
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- P4 k2 B% n% C6 U1 m8 v7 E
' i- G* V2 J4 jZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, ]# p( v" E& {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 }0 c, P. F0 X4 Z. z
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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