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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
* |- W1 `% Y( G F W3 zbe the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was0 P$ A3 O. h, `, @$ v& [8 n
the other possibility.% ], z! p0 N' e% G8 ]9 E n
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ O! {) S/ D+ z: L' C. R; lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 H+ ]5 A( s/ J4 C& f. m/ B; }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".# ?1 K$ H7 K' N
5 E0 y7 m. W$ ?; D2 V: |8 }8 ^4 HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 r8 B/ J) d! [0 M, r# S
the sivil servants jump with joy.: i" D+ _, H, u( \2 n
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 O9 [5 m( y6 Y; z2 |- C' f2 |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ y- Z7 C! O" L9 [7 t
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% d6 S1 ^: U6 q: oThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 A; ]* T+ K" M8 jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
% R. s" u# n u% @( q% M3 t H3 X+ Yfotograf 20% shorter.& f6 x Z. J. c! i5 E7 X
4 s# q0 j4 y) i) g# B/ |: EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* Y+ @9 G2 k5 q" t# E& N! K8 L) y- [
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% O3 p u6 \2 S7 s
( w# f- V0 m: u9 \7 d7 ^" PGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ B, \1 D; O" y1 Hben a deterent to akurate speling.. l# l6 H# S! V0 `# w7 H
* @- B& b, }2 X8 |& \+ uAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( q! c9 P# \: J
disgrasful and it should go away.( m! V6 v. r; G& V" P7 D" R7 d
; K' E, r) G* F: n7 N1 _. WBy 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
a" K5 H7 ~* b( ~after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Q- F5 S( n! P6 B. c3 d& B
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% ~3 C8 t6 ]( ?( z2 r1 Vunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# M/ {3 w- p" D# t/ w* b* B: |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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! H. O1 ^( Q+ A$ oIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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