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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 x9 E/ y$ s' g! o [be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was# z: z* B$ u% H. q$ t
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ y1 L2 f8 Q0 U& w
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' j$ i1 D- p9 R2 Fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".5 M5 v' ?4 N$ B
0 k( p4 n: f% x# p- jIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make- }5 F: H8 p! R
the sivil servants jump with joy.& Z5 g) O, X: b: I! o
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' T' }' w1 L1 c% H3 |/ ?konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 _, U; z+ t" i8 N% Q- H
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! D3 x/ c& _7 n% j# V4 JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ f) p6 Q" r0 S# J. Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
* j( F& j' v9 Rfotograf 20% shorter.1 F- Q+ Z+ \2 n! I# r; }0 v
1 |, J2 v' l8 T3 H3 O N+ mIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 Y p) q/ ~2 D' E. k' B- {$ U0 B
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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6 s' [4 a/ N; N8 sGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 r( P& V- F8 E2 \% i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% i) V/ y' M1 a/ D8 e
7 d# K2 n: L R7 M; {Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' K( c' \0 [" F( C' Y# z( `5 m
disgrasful and it should go away.- o5 ^" k) x* J; a6 @( S
. H! Y3 @) d: c* G+ Y$ y; J xBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with0 k# a# n+ A0 e. S" n
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ p) m9 ~5 r1 L; n3 _% i0 BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
2 ]0 R! I* o5 m. y7 A& ^! Wafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% \! B3 M1 }4 ?
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu. d/ C0 ]+ R: G7 s% V8 N! o
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 @2 _1 J) {' O, }# fUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* I9 r/ l$ ]; |/ H: Y& e6 V& ?( U) zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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