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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
" h7 i/ F Y$ x4 Wbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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2 X0 V6 @1 v; m ~4 F7 WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 _6 {& T' \, U. [5 _
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! x% v% o; |, s9 t
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! H& t5 A: Y( {% I
2 K' e( A- G0 h5 z% b5 G c* _In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 i7 q1 W H3 d' {( s* `the sivil servants jump with joy.3 P4 Y+ q9 ], F& x6 z# x
6 X) F( q1 Z" ?( r) ^9 X- M# U: |The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ ~7 q( F3 Q0 E0 m. k8 R1 j! ~1 }konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 z1 M0 e. m2 F8 Z1 w
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" b+ `. W' G3 d6 q$ w
fotograf 20% shorter.4 o2 G# s# \, ~
" n0 M3 p1 K: P5 C) Y& tIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 \8 m: c, H- M* d
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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9 d4 ^ p- R' }& R* xGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
( c) {4 m( y5 I- Xben a deterent to akurate speling.3 u+ w7 @9 R2 W4 b; e" A
2 A* l7 d8 \' Y- _3 _/ K5 J' fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& s/ _. q5 P+ _4 E& J$ ~1 ]: [disgrasful and it should go away.
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5 _+ a7 J3 P; V: U2 e6 a' qBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. j) D, `6 @; Y/ FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* Z, N( W0 G7 L" E+ Y8 {0 ]after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) M. A1 \# m% U2 U- i2 s1 f) T
( n# W" L r' [" b# o EZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' |8 ?6 V/ n \9 ~understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ O7 b- b: X" ^+ yUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
% o% o$ t8 n* J; }7 U6 [$ `forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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