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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will# j' v `7 l/ {" T1 F. n
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
7 D; x* ] g% c |the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 v) ^1 r4 D, Q% _; W1 k9 H y
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ g6 a" Y3 \8 T4 d& P9 m
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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1 _9 e2 A8 F- s4 W- qIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make" y# [# @, J: U
the sivil servants jump with joy.; _" K' _ Q* @; e
3 O* V4 Q6 P$ j* `- [The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up# a2 `$ c# O( V1 v6 x2 M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: u! z3 U: O7 J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
# Y9 R$ X( k: A4 H2 \+ E5 otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like! i# ?0 l; k6 e8 _0 U( k# S$ ~- V! l
fotograf 20% shorter.+ _" N F6 M' L1 c% A5 c
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* p. @% k5 M8 F; Z4 G8 ?" Breach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% ?- Q/ A1 `$ ?6 l/ h& R* y7 |8 i
ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 r, d- P; X* I
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ s0 m5 c2 e( V( r' g
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ }% {7 Y7 i5 f7 |" H+ Z& y8 {+ J9 DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 N1 `5 ]+ ?' w/ t* g6 f, H! W
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- Y& W) F0 V2 `+ M1 z' k, g& L5 |after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.0 H8 N3 B9 |' Q3 N2 F
) T6 m0 E* y8 E- F( r; bZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' J) p) B8 r" L V" T w0 J1 |understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) _3 ]9 E9 ]! }
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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# A3 p) G$ L; z& ]0 yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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