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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will! ] D- {1 v3 {4 B) [4 M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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( |, V) O& t3 @$ iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English# {0 ]; j5 K L: ]/ p/ H" f7 }
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- J" I, k: u% s$ N& ~
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".% {* x ?. g7 Y' l3 f( d8 {
' J# v$ |5 e* Q4 t2 RIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 J# x# T, ]6 f8 H% V \, Cthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
0 L" y" r4 [( K6 X' t0 ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- N: d; ]4 \5 s' x3 O) @# \& wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) `" D- M) y) R/ |; B$ kfotograf 20% shorter., x0 l8 x, D4 P* U
' M% c: N! u; f& DIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 q" x1 ^2 c7 N: k* y8 f% l9 h% Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) a) w. {& ]/ V5 C7 o, _0 [3 L% O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
, \* _# x4 z) m b1 ^ h3 p! Tdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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5 ]: ]( k- t m. Y4 g. ^ |( mDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and* m* y) l* u9 `& s: h k- r% \, y
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.+ X( H: f8 r/ H9 A; j- f
9 k7 q: |4 z3 b. `2 GZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu5 h y/ I8 |4 r2 b
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- k3 f1 x7 N, ^6 Y4 {5 V; D
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( |5 v7 p( \5 r& f+ g
forst plas.
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8 v$ F b0 R' {: XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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