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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will7 j, C1 s2 T+ J# M- y3 C% d d8 W
be 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
3 Y# q2 l* x/ F- P- q% f- U. D2 ?spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in Z% y o S6 i2 {: ]8 F0 e
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) H1 N" v* U& Q5 c, a
the sivil servants jump with joy.* G# j+ ]: Q$ w
$ v9 x, K" w- J) s# y$ j+ @The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" V2 q5 \& S' r3 u+ nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.$ u, D, D3 z }, j$ c/ ]) {8 s
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0 O. K U2 I0 `/ V7 k. ?/ e3 A4 eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 n% m# h n( s
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! ]# M: _* j9 G, v l- j6 g# k( G
fotograf 20% shorter.
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! {: @) ^9 K/ ^6 @In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 O$ V7 B/ \0 p5 ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' i0 G% \1 a9 E' m
5 {$ O$ q) e6 k3 ?+ E4 T' I- RGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always3 r: K; w: s2 ?3 W& ?; F( Y
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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) l) f$ U5 `( w7 c7 }2 }Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
) {% c% U8 u+ ?# ?# |disgrasful and it should go away.
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) k6 Q5 p' ?; j) tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
% @8 P0 C. V, j( R6 Y" gafter 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 tu
0 `8 z, o0 w+ ^0 r' ^/ K7 ?4 Eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ o- E/ v. S& x4 a7 SUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. K( U9 N3 s3 z; T3 W
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( W' H2 D& v; |# Q# e0 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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