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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
% O1 A3 j) j" F7 W# y9 Zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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?& ]' i$ x) P( P6 }2 FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
' j( t ? S$ V1 ~! F" gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# G& M# f2 e3 d$ nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ j' Y6 G& I0 r
$ `/ f$ V& h% S; |9 E* S3 z8 Q7 ]! _In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
8 H& I# X3 j" W* C% \6 sthe sivil servants jump with joy.: o3 C) c. Y3 S4 G! [
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
, j* k1 J; q6 @; X9 F, z9 e8 p: Z' ekonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 G; q/ t$ C3 W$ a) J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 G7 K1 J+ X5 }) K* ~" t4 m1 p) Wtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 ~; m# @& n/ {" }
fotograf 20% shorter.' J' q: c( ^" H9 P0 Y
) H9 d! x P, {' q+ ~0 F9 C1 KIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ l8 U5 Q3 q- r% vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ _3 d3 ?. u. S; ~; y$ U
4 \. [/ ~3 q# ~" h) u' n( tGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 C! l! V3 f6 r9 y- k+ {
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 ~. ]# E: R* G" D3 U, G
& o2 N& v$ G) F+ Z# p4 WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% F% B1 x7 @, P( |
disgrasful and it should go away.! y# c+ t4 u0 N/ \7 G
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
, l9 N2 M% ]3 U+ A: e! A) }, f"z" and "w" with "v".
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% z% L0 y6 R6 H5 _$ q6 yDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 G% V$ u' ~3 {% Y' ]
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% h: m2 G7 `% c, T, o
, o H7 B) u5 D# MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: m! ~/ L4 D7 w( |5 d( f9 G# g4 T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& J7 w* [& p% {/ d# ]* r" X" x( ?
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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1 r; X/ @/ }' W8 e# EIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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