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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will% I8 Q& l D1 U: ?$ Y4 R
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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: Z8 F# G: Z$ L: {; J, DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 C' A. h8 }+ j; H- \spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 g5 [8 y4 o F( t' s" o- B" \plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 G0 G! m) V) s8 q1 E, k' \
% C5 W0 y0 F( `, ]) zIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make- I$ a. R& @ v- c: c! _* x9 r8 k1 ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.2 n+ g! ~' \3 {+ f3 B0 o
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ `4 v0 g' a2 e- h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the7 n- K9 [0 f& q0 Z3 O+ r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) Y- ?6 `/ S8 P7 n& w- J
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to2 @7 I- ?4 {, h* h6 l- }
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.0 J1 v# c# A" }, W0 Z1 T; U4 m
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% n3 E6 L3 ]) P# L1 r% N4 |. n5 H
ben a deterent to akurate speling.) [! h, T, @: V
( ^8 k6 L2 E8 I _3 k/ I0 tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
* T1 m. L/ Y8 Ndisgrasful and it should go away.1 `2 l4 G" J8 `- t) H
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# a+ A5 t# K b; [! x$ e
"z" and "w" with "v".) z. x0 I. _# u* s
0 k( J* y9 t% }9 O/ n1 z9 }0 gDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( p& P; @9 X E( }8 |after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! P9 d1 z' R: `# r
5 t3 ? H5 ~. @' h5 TZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ D' J5 l1 x+ f. q+ ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 O+ E/ n: ~$ b. R5 v9 X' }$ p6 D* s7 ^
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! z2 c2 ]) ]9 ]+ Q2 M) A
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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