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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
9 \% d9 S. I1 L' Wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
- l4 v5 }2 F! w! B* ~the other possibility.
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% z6 r T$ F- O' k1 JAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ l2 i2 ]: s' ^
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in7 S7 G7 E \- R: K" S( X; [( J/ V
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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. y- z7 V# Y, t1 @: _1 y& ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make4 u5 H6 A/ s y; d9 _; s3 T
the sivil servants jump with joy.% J# d' ]; [; F. W7 o8 ~# x5 w
+ l; `9 ~) w( _0 K9 vThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# r$ {4 [! m' m! \8 X& |/ j
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ w/ S' _* \, `1 [3 J8 P" I
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- \( e1 R2 E, v& G9 Z0 @4 P1 FThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ { s2 a4 N- {" H6 Q. utroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 \( L# S0 k; `1 S
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to; t1 ]+ V, g1 P8 B! a
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ n- u* M/ J$ p! Fben a deterent to akurate speling.) y0 y6 T' m9 H [+ D1 K* V9 j
% P9 L9 x/ M1 x' b4 UAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 w! H, }8 c R% O* {" p) odisgrasful and it should go away." X% k( G% t% T$ F* Q& j) P
: ^' P& \( {5 Z' M" S3 k1 m$ DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
: G: \5 @- R. J, m9 Z& e( Y' Q6 n"z" and "w" with "v". v) U# U$ r7 ]) [' W3 D
' m$ r9 K$ t! M( ^- G/ T% J1 Z# C- HDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 N ~) B1 c9 F5 Z# Tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; J. K: `' ]# O& _' S2 X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' e% S( g7 |. u, y8 G
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
7 N4 t6 \, d7 l8 ]6 u' XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 W" z3 K+ `( k
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) t1 H# s. H) e5 Y4 |If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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