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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will/ M) W- p+ K7 |5 a
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was3 @; r4 p; ^2 X9 w: C7 b8 v
the other possibility.6 E; H7 ?- w0 E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
: o+ m# u8 f# R4 Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. F- n/ }4 l t: r1 `* e
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- U) |' t! o' ?; ~; E* U
! t5 o: D! ]% ?% g; Z% jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
- `. _0 B; X# Y( v+ `the sivil servants jump with joy.! {/ L* d6 d& j& K5 O
: D6 z( O- K8 r5 rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, u; k0 }: A* R2 M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 s: z1 o- k: v0 M
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 B/ k+ D C4 O; Bfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' [7 c3 L+ r# ?, }* _% greach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# F+ _( X6 c7 e# [( s. x4 zben a deterent to akurate speling.# j- Z3 e/ U; b3 I
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
# N5 g$ J+ i/ {6 N1 M* c. W1 @disgrasful and it should go away.2 Q" A( i0 h: k8 \
2 q) I% J' i9 c+ D$ N/ }2 zBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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7 B3 M7 H$ r) {: m0 XDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- t4 U; L) g( f% i& r: W6 W
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; k% }/ M! W0 t9 m, S) Q# j
0 [- l& G* a, LZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
- P5 \6 a4 n) u9 U- Q8 dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& h! U1 V6 ^% k$ ~) M0 l$ X5 |7 v* V
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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