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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
/ X: `4 ~" {: [0 O1 y% v- y W1 L& Ebe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was! N: d5 i; o( \; S4 u
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- i7 \( r7 w9 G! q; b d4 a2 \8 ~3 f
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 m1 D3 I# T q0 E) n9 H8 rplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* L! Y4 _) W: l* O) eIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' K0 H. m; w% {" Kthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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; H, Y% s( W; `1 MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up, v l% H' U$ J! O7 L( D& ^
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: }1 N5 K% `% [. r9 N5 l& NThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
+ F: A5 u8 J5 y; Ttroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
$ @! A: a( D& P6 U3 Xfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. [: j* m" }- Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. v6 b6 t2 I" T$ Z
- T A6 S) x; e& N+ X( l2 P4 Q9 CGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* ~( |- o7 W: G0 o# ^
ben a deterent to akurate speling.; ]9 z6 L0 N" ?& n+ b( a
% f2 z8 A' b1 P. V$ k3 [% C x+ MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, W. c, r% J& q) w4 A
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) r; p' L# B# N7 u4 E5 A3 _after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. `! E- @4 n! G2 N
1 P6 c' E2 i( m: q9 G; V% Y fZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# Y% u7 x/ e$ ?
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.* [5 G0 X6 l2 m. N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* R$ ]2 f6 }- e3 ?. A
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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