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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ V+ `$ w6 G* t7 h: O4 i6 hbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was, G0 T8 c* n6 a' Q
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# W% ?0 t6 L/ g# ^+ s7 Z8 D1 H/ BAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English9 P0 j1 w( L- J
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in p; l* s, A4 d; L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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! j& E/ E. H5 V2 C5 rIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 A5 u7 i* L7 ?% Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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. J' G$ ~- p k3 \. oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, i# J2 T- O7 l3 U7 N. K r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ H4 o6 J( w# C9 z6 Y
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m+ j* e6 ~4 VThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 _* Y0 Q. _% V4 k0 M0 Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ {1 a2 l+ g1 B3 m8 ?% F0 G- zfotograf 20% shorter.' ~! V7 @- Y' C. y* e3 \1 @5 O
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 q' W" z5 |( l8 ?0 w8 G( d& D' A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 D3 M( z6 s, a$ I# a
) u9 N- N- h7 ]5 RGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# u( m' S1 K$ jben a deterent to akurate speling./ m0 @) V/ f* \' C
, h. {4 ]7 w! v0 V, ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 w5 h* X0 V+ P( q
disgrasful and it should go away.5 t) @% Y) m+ E: `( D/ ^5 K
8 `, T4 T9 Q! T" eBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 \& s0 f6 c: }* h& c3 S
"z" and "w" with "v".
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9 e8 ?: N9 a' ]7 h$ ]% b k7 IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
d& H) _: K: f; G( ]; [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 P" y; ?! `8 x# v3 P; j. E% x
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( e$ _+ c' B! ~5 G3 Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% F: r6 I F. ?) T b8 DUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze' T- g0 @1 W0 t# w
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' \3 Y( z* g' J4 u; v# ]' bIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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