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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
5 o b0 ^( U( rbe 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 English4 Z/ H5 O% G& O% m; X
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! c" ?. w, y4 J/ s3 R9 A+ W
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".3 K, Y% J X$ W) e4 _( {
$ M" x+ B- t$ E: Y" J$ |In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" F4 q* K s+ v% v. f( g) ]5 d
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ k, e( F r( Z- m+ L' l$ W
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: O2 a0 n) j% G8 R7 T- a
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- W. ^1 @. L0 T2 ^9 z7 l" {
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4 @+ z. f6 K( Q9 V" UThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 G( f1 P9 { m$ _' xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) [0 p% C j2 E6 p% M6 h, Xfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 c) r7 c; l c+ }) r' breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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# X. `1 j* r8 f9 U: V p& J- pGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: Y0 S: o3 y: _ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: R& n( {& o& K5 r- }! _. ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ ^+ A* P$ ~! {. z1 Ddisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! K* G5 I6 U, j% F/ X
"z" and "w" with "v"." r! i) a- v! E* H2 w
: z* o4 H3 U4 J" Y! k& i" @5 e( XDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. Y8 M- o2 ?4 S S. P( s
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu1 I3 X9 Z% ?0 ?+ Q" t
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ t F- i+ M3 m" {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze, e2 b6 ?1 u- H# X+ {) U
forst plas.2 @; t2 e) d- @! J$ w+ {
2 _/ z4 T5 ?5 I" S* g/ Y% x; qIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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