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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 g; y9 ]/ L" {5 L2 K6 Fbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 i+ S. d S5 K0 r/ ~- ~/ U1 K# b+ Y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ a& t& N" S& z- q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. K5 X7 T1 X0 ^" R8 p @! a p
% g5 p1 @! K! t% o: H7 G( OIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# G5 F. D. R, h) L" C4 Tthe sivil servants jump with joy.3 i4 T% _3 x2 W3 e" r- A: j
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up7 q* W. r2 L" ^# |1 j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( C+ ^; |! U$ X" W8 Y5 Z4 C( c, g; u
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1 Q/ K- k6 A3 e! lThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; w# ~+ V# {$ c6 p6 j- Z8 a$ W$ btroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 k- w2 a$ B- x2 n* _
fotograf 20% shorter.( j3 J( U- ?$ \
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to0 N2 B s z t7 u0 d: h2 H
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. x) D" @8 v1 g. a9 f; R Y1 {
/ c U: a2 Q9 j8 l% `$ fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* ~# ~8 T+ \) t0 ?$ Q8 ^
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ X( k" e( a% }4 Q9 n6 y) H
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) W1 u! r0 `8 C9 A. tdisgrasful and it should go away.- `* h5 T& f J, i0 ]2 H, H
6 z$ m2 k5 x" L1 W P& XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ Z" m" p) d2 I- }3 @"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) ]) x* \( ?# b% q! f3 zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ y+ ~/ u" N$ v- Z
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu f8 D8 B0 X% l# W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 w X) w/ A$ s% J
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze/ e, A# p; }3 ?1 z ^ y
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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