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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will6 X/ m- \" o7 M
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
# i/ K5 D( z2 Q. d3 I4 Qthe other possibility.
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7 p& ?1 m9 l1 r$ ^* WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" P0 f, y u+ N4 V1 y% Mspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& V0 |7 H7 R/ p% D# ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". k. B F) Q& G* \5 ?, X
+ }8 I) W$ w: bIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# [/ U" J3 s! o5 I+ G' W( s7 Sthe sivil servants jump with joy.) j$ R) L1 O8 f$ h1 q, z
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# Q9 d+ h7 C# b: A, ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 @- H# c- o$ \% G/ _
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2 P7 ] k* [: d) B4 A% l+ r6 I- JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
* f6 O* `( U rtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like/ c. ` c$ B% P/ Y" w) }: h
fotograf 20% shorter.; o0 N4 I0 B) m+ i. B' s C/ V
' {! _5 [; Z5 x% M$ M# pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. w. v" }3 W& B( |$ C7 x/ x
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* M1 r" S- `' _2 v/ M" n% b
% j- w. s0 X u3 zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, i1 |' k: X, X. vben 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
\6 J, R# u2 } T3 Ldisgrasful and it should go away./ T9 |) R: @% B
0 T4 A0 N3 |, MBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% N5 A2 _/ D" T# s" A$ z" |
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
1 b5 L1 k& t" ?4 V3 [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.6 U! }8 a4 ~4 [# F9 n1 b0 \' {
& L/ b" F E" _# r4 Y; gZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
8 C% |) l9 e4 J# V, W* Xunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! a1 V: K U wUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# O. E4 b5 [: ~+ g! R( m, u. q9 B' W
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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