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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will( V3 I7 J" y% `( R
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 English7 S1 z9 J8 @ r3 |% N$ y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
! t$ ]5 d* ^' D5 s- y/ Z' jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." q2 G. k( X* X' t) |& C
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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: k: f i: V5 G' t4 g( tThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# j3 y! J' `3 N: M R0 n) Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) E' F, _8 F! m6 X. q, Ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like E% E8 t) m* P6 E" p6 X( Z
fotograf 20% shorter.
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+ w* O. `' v, m2 i# d- tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ h: N1 \, u( L) x4 w( c& Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.3 J( ^/ u" @2 L$ d0 c$ y/ y$ b; |
; o9 o8 u3 ?7 g& L, d; d' OGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 ?% Z1 @+ k- d9 c) K8 \5 [* a
ben a deterent to akurate speling." ~0 W. d& c2 P$ F, a2 O. X% C
2 z2 m5 j- w- c( b8 H+ J' e# VAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is3 k5 j8 O+ i% U. U9 Z% Q6 j
disgrasful and it should go away.; N0 x7 _1 I- ^8 E- F5 j
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 T, ^2 L7 S: N6 i
"z" and "w" with "v".4 ?" G c5 B) a' {4 N+ i
+ p" T: P8 c+ Y& F9 ]During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 p4 w5 k4 y2 v5 ^3 L! |9 I
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.; n$ d2 Z' ~4 j" O/ s P1 x( {6 w
5 q4 ]1 [& I9 G2 aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ c* y8 m) x% t/ a! {% H- X6 b) j' Zunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; `; o6 m& {/ { C4 ~ W8 g
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- q0 S8 Y3 S. z1 g
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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