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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* Y4 K" y: u9 A Y% Z+ tbe 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 English
" [) T( [4 v# x6 k/ b9 Nspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 D' S( j3 Y0 e# T' [3 t0 m
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
9 X; k* M6 C6 j- dthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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6 L# s4 G7 g cThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up6 V5 s( L( B* s4 E% j- s
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.3 v. W; x1 d/ }) N! }) N6 o+ k
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 W$ t5 C+ ^4 qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
* v$ W- R$ X2 j' bfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 M. p' M& r: r2 ]/ m* A# creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
# B/ b9 [2 {0 A' cben a deterent to akurate speling.( S1 P" |) \6 ~
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 c' W9 h. n4 x7 Z5 jdisgrasful and it should go away.
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1 |1 s3 l; e: q9 S% Z8 d; F2 y VBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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4 U" U$ u4 F) T9 m0 n6 oDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" I5 ^- V" v4 w A" B- g# w
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- j* _: R/ r" `& d; v2 c
) V, |* J' s) u, F/ \Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" S6 V8 W! r* Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) g, ~8 [" S: x( D5 P. iUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 v) t2 m4 ?% P, U
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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