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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
3 H4 L2 ^! K; g `6 xbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 l$ v4 P7 N3 F4 o2 H; m0 q, E
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
8 l! z' f( N( C4 l0 Q4 s4 pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% I- } [! `7 t! @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
! U7 i' u- v3 `$ d; R% z# Z5 Nthe sivil servants jump with joy. @% P( c0 C7 D
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 K* l1 W3 p }+ G9 b$ J/ Y8 F% e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( m% h$ B) U. }* I
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. v% r: R2 M3 _" j! J+ UThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
. c2 y7 J8 v# c+ u" q1 V( Ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) m7 X' K9 R- H, }/ p3 |# ?% y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 d. h; E- m+ q8 A1 T- C5 }
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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* K$ K1 V6 [- J" lGovernments 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 is
0 `5 s' j; g4 Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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5 M6 e0 C; z, ~4 j+ sBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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0 h! u! f& G3 [9 Q0 z' ?During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 S' h! [4 G" Z- i3 C9 z' P; b& k2 b
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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" d1 i9 n0 h& ~; iZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" m5 t* u1 q( C0 j9 D) M
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 ]4 M% N+ a9 \! q+ f3 F0 }5 |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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8 C$ {/ b Q! s) z$ M4 ^If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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