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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
( L7 N7 _7 |+ Z6 r- bbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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8 H! _ D3 ]1 G. H* m) EAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English! y- x8 q* A9 O. O* O$ L
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* u5 X% ?0 A% s. d1 N& Q* J
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 J/ y6 G! S/ i8 u* ~/ C7 b( Z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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% S4 n) F+ J7 HThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 \6 J6 F7 F3 J& W( _- h1 ~- E
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ t: |7 ~! a, M2 ZThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
6 c/ V0 q" S$ Y3 Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
/ y ]: |$ {' w; R$ Afotograf 20% shorter.
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2 k. }! T# d- T* q1 M; q3 l3 tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ }9 M. V. D3 @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- D4 |0 ]# J E7 n7 A5 X9 I
ben a deterent to akurate speling." r& c" C y8 x2 z9 @/ \1 N/ t
- ?" h# c9 s7 u5 Y) L1 eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is. S2 R! k# n* \* B# g
disgrasful and it should go away.+ r0 l9 d4 \$ L% f0 C9 ?# M/ g/ V
0 U5 H* ^, w \3 e4 N* JBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
7 O, J) O" t; v8 c"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 W( j& T, g( U- n/ pafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl." D0 [& N5 g! M# N8 D
7 o4 H$ w) K w3 A4 g; {% C: W& kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: L* [4 L0 i/ ?; `$ b, i& z: Bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 G( G: s! h/ e: q! e
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ r) r N9 l6 j' u$ U% R
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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