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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
! ]$ F, C$ a0 q9 s+ `be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was" p3 K9 K! A7 z0 |! z+ w
the other possibility.: \1 f( O" H+ K2 \3 J
# V/ M, N t+ U/ r9 k/ tAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ j$ B6 i0 m. L* @& O8 n9 ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 P' r/ q7 |5 L h3 R3 A' c
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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3 j0 _% X+ E! C$ `' xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 J" ^1 b& {) ^' B R- @
the sivil servants jump with joy.4 J! X) H6 a# i5 S: X- \9 {5 z `3 P2 C
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ `: L4 P: l( m/ [7 y$ l" Z" R
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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6 ?3 M/ C( m9 A) O/ O- ?9 UThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" }# P1 Z# \' j" q! f7 jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: ]% a6 R% p6 _# N: N! B
fotograf 20% shorter.
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# q' Z5 e+ b8 p/ h+ j( j5 W) K3 e4 jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 ^$ y+ A5 s+ M* ^4 T
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 x' N( x) ^; c# L
disgrasful and it should go away.% w* W) U' e; [4 r9 Y
2 _* N' N9 o" h( hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 ]0 j4 m, N& Y f! _
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.# {2 p5 A5 a: Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 I9 {8 N! ]5 j- c6 K! i5 ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.( l/ q) c% Z" J- W. F* L
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 {& p' D! H/ Q }0 M. z
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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